WRITER

Álvaro Cunqueiro

1911 - 1981

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Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia ("Merlin and family"). He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Álvaro Cunqueiro has received more than 32,716 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Álvaro Cunqueiro is the 5,014th most popular writer (down from 4,746th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Álvaro Cunqueiro ranks 5,014 out of 7,302. Before him are Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Ramón J. Sender, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Sidney Howard, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, and Margery Allingham. After him are Anna Maria Ortese, Joanna Russ, Paul Theroux, Wolf Erlbruch, Pratibha Ray, and Michael Hirst.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Álvaro Cunqueiro ranks 273. Before him are Jean Cayrol, Shoichi Sakata, Alfred Manessier, Nikolai Baibakov, Szilárd Bogdánffy, and Zoltán Beke. After him are Alberto Galateo, Edgar Sanabria, Gypsy Rose Lee, István Énekes, Bibi Torriani, and Frederick Seitz. Among people deceased in 1981, Álvaro Cunqueiro ranks 196. Before him are Mary Lou Williams, Chief Dan George, Curtis Bernhardt, Richard Boone, Paul Mattick, and Tadeusz Baird. After him are José María Minella, Frances Yates, Aníbal Ciocca, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Roy Cochran, and Wilfried Puis.

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