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Émile Zola

1840 - 1902

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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also US: ; French: [emil zɔla]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...!  Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Zola is the 53rd most popular writer (down from 42nd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from France (down from 37th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Writer.

Émile Zola is most famous for his novel, "J'accuse" (I accuse) in which he accuses the French government of anti-Semitism.

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Among writers, Émile Zola ranks 53 out of 7,302. Before him are Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, and Denis Diderot. After him are Gustave Flaubert, Euripides, Li Bai, Octave Mirbeau, Astrid Lindgren, and Oscar Wilde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Émile Zola ranks 4. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Monet, and Thomas Hardy. After him are Auguste Rodin, Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1902, Émile Zola ranks 1. After him are Cecil Rhodes, Swami Vivekananda, Rudolf Virchow, Samuel Butler, Levi Strauss, Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Albert of Saxony, Francis, Duke of Cádiz, and Ion Ivanovici.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Zola ranks 49 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), Henry IV of France (1553), Pierre Curie (1859), Denis Diderot (1713), and André-Marie Ampère (1775). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Brigitte Bardot (1934), Édouard Manet (1832), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Eugène Delacroix (1798).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Émile Zola ranks 13. Before him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713). After him are Gustave Flaubert (1821), Octave Mirbeau (1848), Stendhal (1783), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), and Guy de Maupassant (1850).

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