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Alejandro Casona

1903 - 1965

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Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona (3 March 1903 – 17 September 1965) was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alejandro Casona has received more than 57,703 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Alejandro Casona is the 3,741st most popular writer (down from 3,379th in 2019), the 1,149th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,026th in 2019) and the 140th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alejandro Casona ranks 3,741 out of 5,755. Before him are Luigi Alamanni, Enrique Vila-Matas, David Baldacci, Natallia Arsiennieva, Anne Hébert, and Juana de Ibarbourou. After him are Sandra Brown, Ugo Betti, Edgar Hilsenrath, Arundhati Roy, Said Akl, and Norman Manea.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Alejandro Casona ranks 191. Before him are Ward Bond, Julio Antonio Mella, Vincent Richards, Graham Sutherland, Natallia Arsiennieva, and Claude Dauphin. After him are Cyril Jackson, Yashpal, Ivan Galamian, Nathanael West, Wage Rudolf Supratman, and Adolph Gottlieb. Among people deceased in 1965, Alejandro Casona ranks 115. Before him are Roger Vailland, Johannes Bobrowski, Edward R. Murrow, Harry Crerar, Henry Cowell, and Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues. After him are Julius Skutnabb, Philip Showalter Hench, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Viola Desmond, Aldo Nadi, and Adlai Stevenson II.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Alejandro Casona ranks 1,149 out of 2,932. Before him are Lope de Rueda (1500), Adama Traoré (1996), Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (1824), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), Jesús Navas (1985), and Enrique Vila-Matas (1948). After him are Luis Miró (1913), José Cadalso (1741), Julio Jiménez (1934), Javi Martínez (1988), Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916), and María Blanchard (1881).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Alejandro Casona ranks 140. Before him are Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856), Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Gloria Fuertes (1917), Lope de Rueda (1500), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), and Enrique Vila-Matas (1948). After him are José Cadalso (1741), Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916), Manuel José Quintana (1772), Joan Alcover (1854), Manuel Machado (1874), and Cerverí de Girona (1259).

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