WRITER

Ahmadou Kourouma

1927 - 2003

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Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 – 11 December 2003) was an Ivorian novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmadou Kourouma has received more than 84,406 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmadou Kourouma is the 3,056th most popular writer (up from 3,141st in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Côte d'Ivoire and the most popular Ivorian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 84k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmadou Kourouma ranks 3,056 out of 7,302. Before him are Azalais de Porcairagues, Nikolay Nosov, Tarafa, Joseph Joffo, Ibn Zaydún, and Gregory Corso. After him are José Donoso, Ricardo Piglia, Shulamith Firestone, Jean Astruc, Félix Fénéon, and Saib Tabrizi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Ahmadou Kourouma ranks 177. Before him are Marcel Ophüls, Werner Liebrich, Ales Adamovich, Lee Konitz, Yutaka Taniyama, and Josef Posipal. After him are Stuart Rosenberg, Juan Alonso, Sadako Ogata, Gisèle Halimi, Hans Bauer, and Gianna Maria Canale. Among people deceased in 2003, Ahmadou Kourouma ranks 145. Before him are Leopoldo Trieste, Tadao Horie, Nello Pagani, Henryk Jabłoński, Giorgio Gaber, and Marc-Vivien Foé. After him are Sam Phillips, João César Monteiro, Hope Lange, Milton George Henschel, Wilfred Thesiger, and Hume Cronyn.

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In Côte d'Ivoire

Among people born in Côte d'Ivoire, Ahmadou Kourouma ranks 10 out of 140. Before him are Laurent Gbagbo (1945), Henri Konan Bédié (1934), Alpha Blondy (1953), Yaya Touré (1983), Robert Guéï (1941), and Sangoulé Lamizana (1916). After him are Jean-Pierre Kutwa (1945), Charles Konan Banny (1942), Kolo Touré (1981), Basile Boli (1967), Laurent Pokou (1947), and Daniel Kablan Duncan (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Côte d'Ivoire

Among writers born in Côte d'Ivoire, Ahmadou Kourouma ranks 1. After him are Marguerite Abouet (1971).

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