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Anita Brookner

1928 - 2016

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Anita Brookner (16 July 1928 – 10 March 2016) was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anita Brookner has received more than 365,422 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Anita Brookner is the 4,028th most popular writer (down from 3,559th in 2019), the 2,885th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,631st in 2019) and the 326th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 370k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anita Brookner ranks 4,028 out of 7,302. Before her are Syd Field, Boualem Sansal, Elbert Hubbard, Dagmar Lange, José Cadalso, and Murray Leinster. After her are Katherine Paterson, Bernardus Silvestris, Gabrielle Wittkop, Russell Banks, Rémy Belleau, and Alykul Osmonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Anita Brookner ranks 335. Before her are Carl Dahlhaus, Robert Dienst, Irena Veisaitė, Đorđe Martinović incident, Marian Seldes, and Eno Raud. After her are Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, André Schwarz-Bart, Morihiro Saito, Hushang Ebtehaj, Arthur Foulkes, and Nora Nova. Among people deceased in 2016, Anita Brookner ranks 262. Before her are Marco Pannella, Ernst Neizvestny, Abdul Sattar Edhi, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Yvette Chauviré, and Faina Melnik. After her are Pedro de Felipe, Raoul Coutard, Afeni Shakur, Giovanni Coppa, László Sárosi, and Ken Adam.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anita Brookner ranks 2,885 out of 8,785. Before her are Jonathan Bailey (1988), Charles Cameron (1746), Michael Morpurgo (1943), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), and Tim Pigott-Smith (1946). After her are Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), Eduardo Paolozzi (1924), William Burnside (1852), Matthew Macfadyen (1974), Julia McKenzie (1941), and Peter Walker (1912).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anita Brookner ranks 326. Before her are Joan Aiken (1924), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Alexander Neckam (1157), Mary Norton (1903), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), and Michael Morpurgo (1943). After her are Fay Weldon (1931), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Peter Cheyney (1896), Jackie Collins (1937), and Helen Fielding (1958).

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