WRITER

Antonio Tabucchi

1943 - 2012

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Antonio Tabucchi (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo taˈbukki]; 24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012) was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio Tabucchi has received more than 156,007 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Antonio Tabucchi is the 759th most popular writer (up from 836th in 2019), the 925th most popular biography from Italy (up from 994th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Italian Writer.

Antonio Tabucchi is an Italian writer who is most famous for his novel "The Solitude of Prime Numbers".

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Requiem
1992
L Angelo Nero
1991
Piazza d'Italia
1971
Donna di Porto Pim e altre storie
Fiction
1983
Sostiene Pereira
1994
La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro
1997
La testa perduta di Damasceno Monteiro
Drug traffic, Fiction, Journalists
1997
Requiem
Fiction, Portugal, fiction, Lisbon (portugal), fiction
"Requiem's narrator has an appointment on a quay in Lisbon at twelve, and when that turns out to mean not noon but midnight, he has a long time to while away. As the day unfolds, he has many encounters: with a young junkie, a taxi driver who is not familiar with the streets, several waiters, a gypsy, a cemetery keeper, the mysterious Isabel, an accordionist - in all, almost two dozen people, both real and illusory. Finally he meets The Guest, the ghost of the long dead great poet Fernando Pessoa. Part travelogue, part autobiography, part fiction, and even a bit of a cookbook, Requiem becomes an homage to a country and its people, and a farewell to the past as the narrator lays claim to a literary forebear."--Jacket.
1992
Pereira Maintains
Lisbon (portugal), fiction, Married people, fiction, Fiction, suspense
2010
Sostiene Pereira
History, Fiction, Romance literature
1994
Requiem
Romance literature
1994
Notturno indiano
Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 759 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Ulrich von Hutten, Antonio Machado, Jean Anouilh, Nestor the Chronicler, and Epicharmus of Kos. After him are Klaus Ebner, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Robert Ludlum, Natalia Ginzburg, Thomas Harris, and Gregory Skovoroda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 61. Before him are Peter Zumthor, Mohammed Badie, Betty Williams, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Jean-Claude Killy, and Ralph M. Steinman. After him are Masaru Emoto, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Esma Redžepova, Neale Donald Walsch, Arthur B. McDonald, and Mario Botta. Among people deceased in 2012, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 31. Before him are Carlos Fuentes, Antoni Tàpies, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, Sven Hassel, Jean Giraud, and John Demjanjuk. After him are Ravi Shankar, Sun Myung Moon, Larry Hagman, Kiro Gligorov, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and Benzion Netanyahu.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 925 out of 5,161. Before him are Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646), Silas (1), Sejanus (-20), Sebastiano Serlio (1475), Poggio Bracciolini (1380), and Epicharmus of Kos (-524). After him are Quirinius (-45), Sandro Pertini (1896), Andrea Luchesi (1741), Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Carla Bruni (1967), and Eleonora Gonzaga (1630).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Antonio Tabucchi ranks 64. Before him are Francesca da Rimini (1259), Andrea Camilleri (1925), Veronica Franco (1546), Emilio Salgari (1862), Theognis of Megara (-570), and Epicharmus of Kos (-524). After him are Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Arrigo Boito (1842), Valerius Maximus (-100), Marie Mancini (1639), Cesare Pavese (1908), and Ibycus (-600).

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