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Alejandra Pizarnik

1936 - 1972

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Flora Alejandra Pizarnik (29 April 1936 – 25 September 1972) was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, [and] death". Pizarnik studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and worked as a writer and a literary critic for several publishers and magazines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alejandra Pizarnik has received more than 260,066 page views. Her biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 37 in 2019). Alejandra Pizarnik is the 1,805th most popular writer (down from 1,769th in 2019), the 108th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 96th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

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  • 4.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 1,805 out of 7,302. Before her are Cangrande I della Scala, Lilya Brik, Elvira Madigan, Albert Gleizes, Sanai, and Bartolomeo Platina. After her are Philemon, Mir Taqi Mir, Alberto Manguel, Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, and Theophylact of Ohrid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 133. Before her are Jo Siffert, Adem Demaçi, Ivan Stambolić, Jan Gehl, Horst Mahler, and Carol Gilligan. After her are Annette Stroyberg, Zeynab Khanlarova, Tuncel Kurtiz, Masako Nozawa, David Yonggi Cho, and Al Oerter. Among people deceased in 1972, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 69. Before her are George Sanders, Edgar Snow, Clara Campoamor, Eugène Tisserant, Akim Tamiroff, and Ettore Bastico. After her are Frans Masereel, Harlow Shapley, Paul Goodman, C. Rajagopalachari, Stephen Timoshenko, and Viktor Barna.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 108 out of 1,154. Before her are Diego Milito (1979), Héctor Rial (1928), Julio Argentino Roca (1843), Javier Mascherano (1984), Manuel Puig (1932), and José Manuel Moreno (1916). After her are Alejandro Sabella (1954), Alberto Manguel (1948), Guillermo Mordillo (1932), Mario Bunge (1919), José Pékerman (1949), and Sergio Agüero (1988).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Alejandra Pizarnik ranks 6. Before her are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Silvina Ocampo (1903), and Manuel Puig (1932). After her are Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and María Kodama (1937).

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