Roger Caillois
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Roger Caillois appears in Vinony's Académie Française collection — one of 749 entries.
Within Vinony's link graph, Roger Caillois is referenced by 204 other articles, and connects out to surrealism, game studies and Netherlands.
It is catalogued under topics including 1913 births, 1978 deaths and 20th-century French male writers.
Its subject is documented across 23 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Roger
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Reims
- Place of death
- Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
- Occupation
- literary critic
- Educated at
- École pratique des hautes études
- Employer
- United Nations
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Image
- UNESCO History, Roger Caillois - UNESCO - PHOTO0000002654 0001 (cropped).tiff
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- place of burial
- Montparnasse Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1913-03-03
- date of death
- 1978-12-21
- Commons category
- Roger Caillois
- name in native language
- Roger Caillois
- ethnic group
- French
- writing language
- French
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1913 births1978 deaths20th-century French male writers20th-century French translatorsBurials at Montparnasse CemeteryCommanders of the Ordre national du MériteÉcole normale supérieure (Paris) alumniÉcole pratique des hautes études alumniFrench recipients of the Legion of HonourFrench surrealist writersGame studiesLycée Louis-le-Grand alumniMembers of the Académie FrançaiseOfficers of the Legion of HonourSpanish–French translatorsTranslators of Jorge Luis BorgesWriters from Reims