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Augusto Boal

1931 - 2009

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Augusto Boal (16 March 1931 – 2 May 2009) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, a theatrical form originally used in radical left popular education movements. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augusto Boal has received more than 518,051 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Augusto Boal is the 1,786th most popular writer (down from 1,644th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 121st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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  • 520k

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  • 62.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Augusto Boal ranks 1,786 out of 7,302. Before him are Tonino Guerra, Juan Donoso Cortés, Lajos Zilahy, Antonio de Nebrija, Gottfried von Strassburg, and Hellanicus of Lesbos. After him are Michel Zevaco, Robert Silverberg, Gabriel Naudé, Djuna Barnes, Joseph D. Pistone, and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Augusto Boal ranks 118. Before him are Don Walsh, Yao Wenyuan, Leslie Caron, Reizo Fukuhara, Morris Chang, and James Tolkan. After him are Ermanno Olmi, Arawa Kimura, Viliam Schrojf, Alfred Schmidt, Zeki Müren, and Margarita Lozano. Among people deceased in 2009, Augusto Boal ranks 82. Before him are Meir Amit, Robert Enke, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Tavo Burat, Prince Alexandre of Belgium, and Tomohiko Ikoma. After him are Lino Lacedelli, Pat Hingle, Irving Penn, Claude Berri, Ernst Barkmann, and James Whitmore.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Augusto Boal ranks 139 out of 2,236. Before him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Adriana Lima (1981), Sérgio Mendes (1941), Zé Roberto (1974), Raí (1965), and Rubens Barrichello (1972). After him are Jânio Quadros (1917), Eurico Gaspar Dutra (1883), Zózimo (1932), Dino Sani (1932), Lúcio (1978), and Carlos Kaiser (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Augusto Boal ranks 9. Before him are Vinicius de Moraes (1913), Machado de Assis (1839), Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), and José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920). After him are Osvaldo Moles (1913), Carlos Marighella (1911), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), Rubem Fonseca (1925), José de Alencar (1829), and Monteiro Lobato (1882).

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