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Trending Novelists in France this week

The 100 most-viewed novelists this week on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Paul Auster.

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1
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
📚 46 citations Person
3,761
views
2
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
📚 25 citations Person
2,709
views
3
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas
French writer and dramatist (1802–1870)
📚 62 citations Person
719
views
4
Amanda Sthers
French screenwriter, writer and playwright
📚 11 citations Person
579
views
5
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
📚 14 citations Person
412
views
6
Shere Hite
Shere Hite
German-American sexologist
📚 12 citations Person
184
views
7
Élisabeth Quin
French journalist and film critic
Person
183
views
8
Anny Duperey
French stage, film and television actress
📚 19 citations Person
109
views
9
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)
📚 67 citations Person
100
views
10
Jean-Paul Sartre
French existentialist philosopher (1905–1980)
📚 52 citations Person
71
views
11
Émile Zola
Émile Zola
French novelist, journalist, playwright, and poet (1840–1902)
📚 59 citations Person
70
views
12
Carrie Fisher
American actress, writer and screenwriter (1956–2016)
📚 38 citations Person
67
views
13
George Sand
George Sand
French novelist and memoirist (1804–1876)
📚 42 citations Person
66
views
14
Romain Gary
French writer and diplomat (1914–1980)
📚 38 citations Person
63
views
15
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac
French novelist and playwright (1799–1850)
📚 48 citations Person
60
views
16
Katherine Pancol
journalist, novelist
📚 14 citations Person
56
views
17
Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant
French writer (1850-1893)
📚 30 citations Person
55
views
18
Fred Vargas
French writer, archaeologist and historian
📚 41 citations Person
55
views
19
Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
📚 47 citations Person
54
views
20
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960)
📚 72 citations Person
54
views
21
Zoya Pirzad
Iranian writer
📚 5 citations Person
53
views
22
Judith Godrèche
French actress
📚 14 citations Person
53
views
23
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
📚 53 citations Person
49
views
24
Franck Thilliez
French writer (born 1973)
📚 18 citations Person
48
views
25
Sylvie Granotier
French actress, translator, writer and screenwriter
📚 5 citations Person
47
views
26
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
📚 80 citations Person
46
views
27
Jules Renard
Jules Renard
French author (1864-1910)
📚 28 citations Person
45
views
28
Françoise Mallet-Joris
Belgian writer (1930-2016)
📚 28 citations Person
45
views
29
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)
📚 52 citations Person
45
views
30
Joseph Goebbels
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister (1897–1945)
📚 30 citations Person
44
views
31
Truman Capote
American author (1924-1984)
📚 34 citations Person
42
views
32
Amélie Nothomb
Belgian Francophone writer (born 1966)
📚 31 citations Person
42
views
33
Michael Peterson
American novelist convicted of manslaughter
📚 6 citations Person
40
views
34
Pierre Lemaitre
French writer
📚 18 citations Person
40
views
35
André Malraux
André Malraux
French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)
📚 52 citations Person
39
views
36
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
📚 45 citations Person
38
views
37
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer and literary critic (1809–1849)
📚 65 citations Person
37
views
38
Lolita Séchan
French writer
📚 6 citations Person
37
views
39
Leïla Slimani
French-Moroccan writer and journalist
📚 20 citations Person
37
views
40
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
📚 91 citations Person
37
views
41
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust
French novelist, critic and essayist (1871–1922)
📚 49 citations Person
36
views
42
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist (1899–1961)
📚 60 citations Person
36
views
43
Stephen King
American novelist and writer (born 1947)
📚 145 citations Person
35
views
44
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
French writer (1828–1905)
📚 51 citations Person
35
views
45
Michel Houellebecq
French writer
📚 49 citations Person
34
views
46
J. K. Rowling
British author and philanthropist (born 1965)
Person
34
views
47
Hugh Laurie
English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer
📚 26 citations Person
34
views
48
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976)
📚 57 citations Person
34
views
49
Tom Clancy
American author (1947–2013)
📚 35 citations Person
34
views
50
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French writer and aviator (1900–1944)
📚 46 citations Person
34
views
51
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert
French novelist (1821–1880)
📚 48 citations Person
33
views
52
Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau
Prime Minister of France, 1906–1909 and 1917–1920 (1841–1929)
📚 37 citations Person
32
views
53
Frédéric Beigbeder
French writer and literary critic (born 1965)
📚 29 citations Person
32
views
54
Colette
Colette
French novelist (1873–1954)
📚 49 citations Person
31
views
55
George R. R. Martin
American writer and television producer (born 1948)
📚 118 citations Person
31
views
56
Régis Debray
intellectual, journalist, official, professor
📚 25 citations Person
30
views
57
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
📚 54 citations Person
30
views
58
Isabelle Carré
French actress
📚 22 citations Person
30
views
59
Anaïs Jeanneret
French actress and novelist
Person
29
views
60
Isla Fisher
Australian actress and author (born 1976)
📚 13 citations Person
29
views
61
Leonard Cohen
Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)
📚 83 citations Person
29
views
62
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon
French poet (1897–1982)
📚 37 citations Person
28
views
63
Lauren Groff
American writer
📚 12 citations Person
28
views
64
Michael Connelly
American novelist, journalist, crime fiction writer, and screenwriter (born 1956)
📚 34 citations Person
27
views
65
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
French-Belgian writer
📚 39 citations Person
27
views
66
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
16th-century French writer and humanist (1494–1553)
📚 28 citations Person
27
views
67
Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel
French journalist and novelist (1898–1979)
📚 34 citations Person
26
views
68
Alan Bradley
mystery writer
📚 12 citations Person
26
views
69
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
French writer and film director (1914-1996)
📚 44 citations Person
26
views
70
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)
📚 62 citations Person
26
views
71
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau
French writer and filmmaker (1889–1963)
📚 76 citations Person
26
views
72
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
French writer, politician and historian (1768–1848)
📚 35 citations Person
25
views
73
Lola Lafon
French writer
📚 13 citations Person
25
views
74
Christophe Honoré
French film director, screenwriter and writer (born 1970)
📚 12 citations Person
25
views
75
Virginie Despentes
French writer and film director
📚 34 citations Person
25
views
76
Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick
American science fiction author (1928–1982)
📚 64 citations Person
25
views
77
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
American writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
📚 80 citations Person
25
views
78
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian novelist (1821–1881)
📚 50 citations Person
25
views
79
Virginie Grimaldi
French novelist
📚 4 citations Person
25
views
80
Frédéric Dard
French writer (1921–2000)
📚 24 citations Person
24
views
81
Valérie Perrin
Valérie Perrin
French novelist and screenwriter (born 1967)
📚 7 citations Person
24
views
82
Silvina Ocampo
Silvina Ocampo
Argentine writer (1903–1993)
📚 20 citations Person
24
views
83
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
📚 47 citations Person
23
views
84
René Barjavel
René Barjavel
French writer (1911–1985)
📚 25 citations Person
23
views
85
Jean Genet
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)
📚 39 citations Person
22
views
86
Olivier Bourdeaut
French writer
📚 7 citations Person
22
views
87
Sylvain Tesson
French writer
📚 21 citations Person
22
views
88
Florian Zeller
Florian Zeller
French novelist, playwright
📚 22 citations Person
22
views
89
Pierre de Marivaux
Pierre de Marivaux
French novelist and dramatist (1688-1763)
📚 32 citations Person
22
views
90
Vanessa Springora
French writer and publisher
📚 11 citations Person
22
views
91
Montesquieu
Montesquieu
French philosopher (1689–1755)
📚 31 citations Person
22
views
92
Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, comedian, author and television personality
📚 38 citations Person
22
views
93
Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Kierkegaard
Danish theologian, philosopher, poet and social critic (1813–1855)
📚 43 citations Person
21
views
94
Thomas More
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
📚 42 citations Person
21
views
95
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet (1850-1894)
📚 52 citations Person
21
views
96
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Russian author (1828–1910)
📚 60 citations Person
21
views
97
Jean-Christophe Grangé
French writer, journalist, and screenwriter
📚 16 citations Person
21
views
98
Bernard-Henri Lévy
French film director and philosopher
📚 25 citations Person
21
views
99
Jack London
Jack London
American author, journalist and social activist (1876–1916)
📚 48 citations Person
20
views
100
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet
French novelist, playwright, and poet (1840–1897)
📚 37 citations Person
20
views