WRITER

A. B. Yehoshua

1936 - 2022

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Avraham Gabriel "Boolie" Yehoshua (Hebrew: אברהם גבריאל "בולי" יהושע; December 9, 1936 – June 14, 2022) was an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. The New York Times called him the "Israeli Faulkner". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of A. B. Yehoshua has received more than 182,542 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). A. B. Yehoshua is the 1,412th most popular writer (up from 1,903rd in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Israel (up from 156th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Mr. Mani (Harvest in Translation)
1993
Voyage vers l'an mil
1998
Lover
1985
A Late Divorce
1984
The continuing silence of a poet
1988
The Liberated Bride
2003
Meʾahev
Adultery, Fiction, Israel, fiction
1977
Short stories
Fiction, Jews, Translations into English
1988
Woman in Jerusalem
Fiction, psychological, Jerusalem, fiction, Terrorism, fiction
2007
Mr. Mani
Jerusalem, fiction, Fiction, sagas
1993
Friendly Fire
Fiction, family life, Married people, fiction, Israel, fiction
2008
Tunnel
Middle eastern philology, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological
2020

Among WRITERS

Among writers, A. B. Yehoshua ranks 1,412 out of 7,302. Before him are Jaan Kross, Jules de Goncourt, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Georg Heym, Philippe Soupault, and Liang Qichao. After him are Agrippa d'Aubigné, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Georges Rodenbach, Remy de Gourmont, Béla Balázs, and Ryū Murakami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, A. B. Yehoshua ranks 97. Before him are Jean M. Auel, Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, Héctor Elizondo, Don DeLillo, Moussa Traoré, and Dean Stockwell. After him are Wolf Biermann, Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild, Wilfried Martens, Roy Emerson, Ken Mattingly, and Paul L. Smith. Among people deceased in 2022, A. B. Yehoshua ranks 87. Before him are Luis Echeverría, Peter Bogdanovich, Jürgen Grabowski, Ichirou Mizuki, Fred Ward, and Saul Kripke. After him are David Sassoli, Margaret Keane, Evaristo Carvalho, Coolio, Paul Veyne, and Patrick Tambay.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, A. B. Yehoshua ranks 142 out of 466. Before him are Arieh Warshel (1940), Simeon of Jerusalem (100), Wadie Haddad (1927), Assi Dayan (1945), Menahem Golan (1929), and Naji al-Ali (1937). After him are Khalil al-Wazir (1935), Sextus Julius Africanus (160), Uzi Narkiss (1925), Valerius Gratus (-50), Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni (1907), and Naftali Bennett (1972).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, A. B. Yehoshua ranks 7. Before him are John the Evangelist (10), Amos Oz (1939), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), Edward Said (1935), Ghassan Kanafani (1936), and David Grossman (1954). After him are May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Justus of Tiberias (35), Meir Shalev (1948), Gideon Levy (1953), and Etgar Keret (1967).

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