Hervé Le Tellier

Hervé Le Tellier, French linguist and author

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Born: April 21, 1957
Age in 2026: 69
Zodiac sign: Taurus
Birth year: 1957

About Hervé Le Tellier

Hervé Le Tellier is a French writer and linguist, and a member of the international literary group Oulipo. He is its fourth president. Other notable members have included Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Jacques Roubaud, Jean Lescure and Harry Mathews. He won the 2020 Prix Goncourt for The Anomaly. He founded, with Frederic Pages and others, the "Association of Friends of Jean-Baptiste Botul" to promote this fictitious philosopher and his school of "Botulism". For her translation, Adriana Hunter won the 27th Annual Translation Prize founded by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation.

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The world when Hervé Le Tellier was born

Hervé Le Tellier was born in 1957. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1957

#1 song"All Shook Up" – Elvis Presley
Top movieThe Bridge on the River Kwai
Top TV showGunsmoke
Best-selling bookOn the Road – Jack Kerouac

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentMilwaukee Braves win the World Series
Top headlineSoviet Union launches Sputnik — Space Race begins
Technology milestoneSputnik 1 becomes first artificial satellite in orbit
Defining fadHula hoops (early buzz)
Notable inventionFrisbee
World population2.87 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderDwight D. Eisenhower
Sports championMilwaukee Braves (World Series)
Also wonBoston Celtics (NBA)
U.S. population171.2M

1957 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Hervé Le Tellier's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1957	2026
Gas	$0.31	$3.45/gal
Average home	$12,200	$435,000
Average income	$6,700	$67,500
Minimum wage	$1.00	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$0.51	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.03	$0.73
Population	171.2M	341 million

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