WRITER

Aminata Sow Fall

1941 - Today

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Aminata Sow Fall (born April 27, 1941) is a Senegalese-born author. While her native language is Wolof, her books are written in French. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aminata Sow Fall has received more than 52,380 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Aminata Sow Fall is the 4,994th most popular writer (down from 4,805th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Senegal (down from 24th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Senegalese Writer.

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  • 52k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 4,994 out of 7,302Before her are Kenneth Copeland, Bernard Clavel, Johann Gottfried Seume, Rosa Chacel, Latifa al-Zayyat, and Peter F. Hamilton. After her are Eleanor Farjeon, Alki Zei, Vladimir Oravsky, José Bergamín, Peter Englund, and Henjō.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 429Before her are Václav Mašek, Alf Clausen, Gilbert Kaplan, Zlatko Škorić, Wasim Sajjad, and Gjermund Eggen. After her are Mario Trevi, Stokely Carmichael, Doug Rogers, Paul Theroux, Nikolai Gubenko, and Iván Menczel.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 25 out of 138Before her are Mame Madior Boye (1940), Mamadou Dia (1910), Ba Mamadou Mbaré (1946), Safi Faye (1943), Théodore-Adrien Sarr (1936), and El Hadji Diouf (1981). After her are Ibrahim Ba (1973), Didier Raoult (1952), Habib Thiam (1933), Guirane N'Daw (1984), Birago Diop (1908), and Jacques Diouf (1938).

Among WRITERS In Senegal

Among writers born in Senegal, Aminata Sow Fall ranks 3Before her are Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906), and Mariama Bâ (1929). After her are Birago Diop (1908), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928), Fatou Diome (1968), Khady Sylla (1963), and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (1990).