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Alasdair Gray

1934 - 2019

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Alasdair James Gray (28 December 1934 – 29 December 2019) was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark (1981), is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alasdair Gray has received more than 845,741 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Alasdair Gray is the 5,457th most popular writer (down from 4,730th in 2019), the 4,483rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,777th in 2019) and the 502nd most popular British Writer.

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  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alasdair Gray ranks 5,457 out of 5,755. Before her are Majgull Axelsson, Nedim Gürsel, Alex Garland, Rói Patursson, Ali Smith, and Adelaide Anne Procter. After her are Khushwant Singh, Leon Kruczkowski, Kjell Espmark, Mary Oliver, Philip Agee, and Lydie Salvayre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Alasdair Gray ranks 431. Before her are Carmine Caridi, Jackie Pretorius, Gerry Hitchens, Antonina Ryzhova, Robert Stigwood, and Evy Berggren. After her are Van Williams, Tina Louise, Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Jagdish Bhagwati, Leon Rotman, and Norma Croker. Among people deceased in 2019, Alasdair Gray ranks 409. Before her are Sigvard Ericsson, Carmine Caridi, Ilona Novák, Giovanni Bramucci, Eduard Krieger, and Heinz Fütterer. After her are Ingemar Hedberg, Mary Oliver, Joseph Pilato, Gerhard Auer, W. S. Merwin, and W. Morgan Sheppard.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alasdair Gray ranks 4,483 out of 7,765. Before her are Brian Bennett (1940), Ali Smith (1962), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), Andy Fraser (1952), Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), and Harry Blackstaffe (1868). After her are John Le Mesurier (1912), James Oglethorpe (1696), Iwan Rheon (1985), David Owen (1938), Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon (1831), and Algernon Sidney (1623).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alasdair Gray ranks 502. Before her are Dafydd ap Gwilym (1320), Margaret Drabble (1939), Sam Houser (1972), David Storey (1933), Alex Garland (1970), and Ali Smith (1962). After her are Terence Rattigan (1911), Howard Jacobson (1942), Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823), Walter de la Mare (1873), Iolo Morganwg (1747), and David Seidler (1937).

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