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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 Universidad de Buenos Aires and worked as a writer and a literary critic for several publishers and magazines. She lived in Paris between 1960 and 1964, where she translated authors such as Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alejandra Pizarnik has received more than 225,144 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Alejandra Pizarnik
1987
La condesa sangrienta
1971
Poesia Completa De Alejandra Pizarnik (Poesias Completas)
2001
Poesía Completa
2003
EXCHANGING LIVES: POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -, Single Author, Poetry
2002
From the forbidden garden
Argentine Authors, Artists, Spanish, Authors, Argentine
2003

Page views of Alejandra Pizarniks by language

Over the past year Alejandra Pizarnik has had the most page views in the with 357,954 views, followed by English (41,760), and French (8,901). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (76.81%), Swahili (74.10%), and Spanish (58.62%)

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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