WRITER

Alberto Moravia

1907 - 1990

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Alberto Pincherle (Italian: [alˈbɛrto ˈpiŋkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: moh-RAH-vee-ə, -⁠RAY-, Italian: [moˈraːvja]), was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista (The Conformist 1947), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Moravia has received more than 544,479 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Alberto Moravia is the 285th most popular writer (up from 301st in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Italy (up from 396th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Italian Writer.

Alberto Moravia is most famous for his novel "La Ciociara," which tells the story of a woman who is abandoned by her husband and must struggle to provide for her children.

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  • 70.55

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  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alberto Moravia ranks 285 out of 7,302. Before him are Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Paul Heyse, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alfonso X of Castile, and William Golding. After him are Paul Valéry, Philip K. Dick, Marcus Terentius Varro, Gerhart Hauptmann, Emily Dickinson, and Arthur C. Clarke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Alberto Moravia ranks 10. Before him are Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, John Wayne, Edwin McMillan, Mircea Eliade, and J. Hans D. Jensen. After him are Laurence Olivier, Hergé, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Baldur von Schirach, Rachel Carson, and Frank Whittle. Among people deceased in 1990, Alberto Moravia ranks 7. Before him are Rajneesh, Lev Yashin, Greta Garbo, Roald Dahl, Leonard Bernstein, and Louis Althusser. After him are Ava Gardner, B. F. Skinner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Paulette Goddard, Sarah Vaughan, and Norbert Elias.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alberto Moravia ranks 380 out of 5,161. Before him are Guido Reni (1575), Antipope John XXIII (1370), Vitus (290), Archytas (-428), Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625), and Pope Sixtus III (390). After him are Pope Leo IV (790), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Nero Claudius Drusus (-38), Cato the Younger (-95), Cesare Maldini (1932), and Tiberius Gracchus (-163).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Alberto Moravia ranks 23. Before him are Juvenal (50), Carlo Goldoni (1707), Torquato Tasso (1544), Dario Fo (1926), Sallust (-86), and Primo Levi (1919). After him are Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Lorenzo Valla (1407), Christine de Pizan (1365), and Ennius (-239).

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