WRITER

Agustina Bessa-Luís

1922 - 2019

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Agustina Bessa-Luís, GOSE (Portuguese: [ɐɣuʃˈtinɐ ˈβɛsɐ luˈiʃ]; 15 October 1922 – 3 June 2019) was a Portuguese writer. From 1986 and 1987, she was director of the daily O Primeiro de Janeiro (Porto). From 1990 to 1993, she was director of the D. Maria II National Theatre (Lisbon). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Agustina Bessa-Luís has received more than 55,887 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Agustina Bessa-Luís is the 4,302nd most popular writer (up from 4,383rd in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 56k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A Brusca
1984
Doidos e amantes
2005
A Sibila
1954
Os meninos de ouro
1983
Sebastião José
History, Biography, Statesmen
1981
Sebastia o Jose
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Agustina Bessa-Luís ranks 4,302 out of 7,302. Before her are Colm Tóibín, Hervé Le Tellier, Diane Disney Miller, Janko Matúška, Decimus Laberius, and Yun Seondo. After her are Luis Vélez de Guevara, Fritz Reuter, Stefano Benni, Osip Brik, Pamela Colman Smith, and Georges Eekhoud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Agustina Bessa-Luís ranks 265. Before her are Karl Aage Præst, John Christopher, José Luis López Vázquez, Juhan Smuul, Július Torma, and Hal Moore. After her are Gordon Tullock, William Gaddis, Ruby Dee, Károly Németh, Norman Lear, and Lizabeth Scott. Among people deceased in 2019, Agustina Bessa-Luís ranks 274. Before her are Sylvia Miles, Lee Radziwill, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Rui Jordão, Paweł Adamowicz, and Emiliano Sala. After her are Ilona Novák, Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Reinhard Bonnke, Henry E. Holt, Christian Bach, and Manfred Burgsmüller.

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