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Abdulrazak Gurnah

1948 - Today

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abdulrazak Gurnah (born 20 December 1948) is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. He was born in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and moved to the United Kingdom in the 1960s as a refugee during the Zanzibar Revolution. His novels include Paradise (1994), which was shortlisted for both the Booker and the Whitbread Prize; By the Sea (2001), which was longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Desertion (2005), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abdulrazak Gurnah has received more than 910,279 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia. Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 956th most popular writer, the 3rd most popular biography from Tanzania and the most popular Tanzanian Writer.

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910k
Page Views (PV)
61.34
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
59
Languages Editions (L)
2.53
Effective Languages (L*)
1.70
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Abdulrazak Gurnah ranks 956 out of 5,755. Before him are Benito Pérez Galdós, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Eleanor H. Porter, and Khaled Hosseini. After him are Juan Antonio Villacañas, E. M. Forster, Garcilaso de la Vega, Ernst Hanfstaengl, Sugawara no Michizane, and Richard Matheson.

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HPI: 61.37
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Eleanor H. Porter
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HPI: 61.35
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HPI: 61.34
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HPI: 61.34
Rank: 956
Juan Antonio Villacañas
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HPI: 61.33
Rank: 957
E. M. Forster
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HPI: 61.31
Rank: 958
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1501 - 1536
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Rank: 959
Ernst Hanfstaengl
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HPI: 61.30
Rank: 960
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HPI: 61.30
Rank: 961
Richard Matheson
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HPI: 61.30
Rank: 962