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Alan Paton

1903 - 1988

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Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Paton has received more than 544,930 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Alan Paton is the 4,155th most popular writer (down from 3,982nd in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from South Africa (up from 85th in 2019) and the 11th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alan Paton ranks 4,155 out of 5,755Before him are Pepetela, Paul Du Chaillu, Platon Oyunsky, Wen Yiduo, Ivan Shmelyov, and Sarah Kane. After him are Ion Druță, Mary Norton, François Cavanna, Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Jesús Moncada, and François le Métel de Boisrobert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Alan Paton ranks 206Before him are Theo Lingen, Jack Oakie, Domingo Tarasconi, Lev Dovator, Rafael Paasio, and Nilo Murtinho Braga. After him are Mary Norton, Pierre Brossolette, Curly Howard, Guillermo Saavedra, Germán Busch, and René Wellek. Among people deceased in 1988, Alan Paton ranks 138Before him are Sándor Bíró, Ferenc Sas, Roy Urquhart, Franca Raimondi, Frederick Loewe, and I. A. L. Diamond. After him are Anatoly Levchenko, Francisco Rodrigues, Emeric Pressburger, Herbert Feigl, Abdulrahman Fawzi, and Marta Abba.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Alan Paton ranks 81 out of 374Before him are Cecil Kellaway (1890), Evelyn Mase (1922), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Deon Meyer (1958), Oliver Tambo (1917), and Walter Sisulu (1912). After him are Gary Player (1935), Claude Chevalley (1909), Chris Hani (1942), Max Gluckman (1911), Frances Ames (1920), and Jan de Klerk (1903).

Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Alan Paton ranks 11Before him are André Brink (1935), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurens van der Post (1906), and Deon Meyer (1958). After him are Ingrid Jonker (1933), Elisabeth Eybers (1915), Elsa Joubert (1922), Karel Schoeman (1939), John Langalibalele Dube (1871), and Antjie Krog (1952).