WRITER

Adolfo Bioy Casares

1914 - 1999

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Adolfo Bioy Casares (Spanish pronunciation: [aˈðolfo ˈβjoj kaˈsaɾes]; 15 September 1914 – 8 March 1999) was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolfo Bioy Casares has received more than 249,932 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Adolfo Bioy Casares is the 1,189th most popular writer (down from 1,173rd in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 51st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Argentinean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 1,189 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacint Verdaguer, Namdev, Meng Haoran, Samuel Butler, Sophia Tolstaya, and Laura Marx. After him are Marcus Manilius, Emmanuelle Arsan, Solomon Northup, Juan Rulfo, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Radegund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 50. Before him are María Félix, Jean Tatlock, Boris Christoff, Peter Townsend, Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, and Norman Borlaug. After him are William Westmoreland, Robert Wise, Alan Hodgkin, Renato Dulbecco, Shapour Bakhtiar, and Akira Nozawa. Among people deceased in 1999, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 40. Before him are Hélder Câmara, Nathalie Sarraute, Gerhard Herzberg, John F. Kennedy Jr., Bernard Buffet, and Amintore Fanfani. After him are Sarah Knauss, Joe D'Amato, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Hermine Braunsteiner, Henri, Count of Paris, and George C. Scott.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 63 out of 1,154. Before him are Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Ernesto Laclau (1935), Isabel Sarli (1929), Lalo Schifrin (1932), Alberto Ginastera (1916), and Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852). After him are Osvaldo Ardiles (1952), Bernardo Houssay (1887), Jorge Sampaoli (1960), César Milstein (1927), Tamara Bunke (1937), and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Adolfo Bioy Casares ranks 3. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), and Ernesto Sabato (1911). After him are Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and María Kodama (1937).

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