WRITER

Amos Oz

1939 - 2018

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Amos Oz (Hebrew: עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner (Hebrew: עמוס קלוזנר); 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amos Oz has received more than 964,049 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Amos Oz is the 265th most popular writer (up from 283rd in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Israel and the 2nd most popular Israeli Writer.

Amos Oz is a famous Israeli author. He is most famous for his novel "A Tale of Love and Darkness."

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  • 960k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 75.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Amos Oz ranks 265 out of 7,302. Before him are Sallust, Johannes V. Jensen, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Vladimir Mayakovsky, François de La Rochefoucauld, and Jami. After him are Salman Rushdie, Primo Levi, Arthur Miller, Anna Komnene, Walt Whitman, and Bartolomé de las Casas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Amos Oz ranks 9. Before him are Tina Turner, Terence Hill, Ian McKellen, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanislav Petrov, and Gro Harlem Brundtland. After him are Amanda Lear, Reuven Rivlin, Giovanni Falcone, Giovanni Trapattoni, Harvey Keitel, and Ada Yonath. Among people deceased in 2018, Amos Oz ranks 12. Before him are Ingvar Kamprad, Montserrat Caballé, Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Stan Lee, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Miloš Forman. After him are Isao Takahata, John McCain, Philip Roth, Stephen Hillenburg, France Gall, and Paul Bocuse.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Amos Oz ranks 46 out of 466. Before him are Ehud Barak (1942), Judas Maccabeus (-200), William of Tyre (1130), Joseph of Arimathea (100), Dinah (-1700), and Joel (-1). After him are Ehud Olmert (1945), Hezekiah (-800), Procopius (500), Daniel Kahneman (1934), Josiah (-648), and Reuven Rivlin (1939).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Amos Oz ranks 2. Before him are John the Evangelist (10). After him are Mahmoud Darwish (1941), Edward Said (1935), Ghassan Kanafani (1936), David Grossman (1954), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Justus of Tiberias (35), Meir Shalev (1948), and Gideon Levy (1953).

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