WRITER

Banana Yoshimoto

1964 - Today

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Banana Yoshimoto (吉本 ばなな, Yoshimoto Banana, born 24 July 1964) is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto (吉本 真秀子, Yoshimoto Mahoko). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Banana Yoshimoto has received more than 554,770 page views. Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Banana Yoshimoto is the 2,605th most popular writer (up from 2,613th in 2019), the 773rd most popular biography from Japan and the 56th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Kitchen
Fiction, Kitchens, Literatura japonesa
1988
Amurita
Fiction, Grief, Family
1994
Tokage
Fiction
1993
N.P
Autores japoneses, Fiction, Japanese Authors
1990
Goodbye Tsugumi
Fiction, Cousins, Female friendship
2002
Hardboiled and Hard Luck
2001

Page views of Banana Yoshimotos by language

Over the past year Banana Yoshimoto has had the most page views in the with 118,802 views, followed by English (72,423), and Italian (42,218). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (206.09%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (130.55%), and Georgian (97.49%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Banana Yoshimoto ranks 2,605 out of 7,302. Before her are Jónas Hallgrímsson, Mariana Alcoforado, George Whitefield, Ubayd Zakani, Géza Gárdonyi, and Paschasius Radbertus. After her are Tobias Smollett, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Sima Tan, Josef Jungmann, Gertrud von Le Fort, and Georg Herwegh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Banana Yoshimoto ranks 97. Before her are Oleh Protasov, Mary-Louise Parker, Doro, Rosen Plevneliev, Christian Louboutin, and Branco. After her are Edith González, Mariska Hargitay, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Jeff Hanneman, Lars Mikkelsen, and Gore Verbinski.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Banana Yoshimoto ranks 773 out of 6,245. Before her are Prince Munetaka (1242), Matsudaira Katamori (1836), Koichi Tanaka (1959), Shō Hashi (1371), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), and Motoo Tatsuhara (1913). After her are Kengo Kuma (1954), Koji Sasaki (1936), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Daidō Moriyama (1938), Ichiji Otani (1912), and Sho Kosugi (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Banana Yoshimoto ranks 56. Before her are Ikki Kita (1883), Ariwara no Narihira (825), George Ohsawa (1893), Okakura Kakuzō (1862), Seichō Matsumoto (1909), and Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662). After her are Yasushi Inoue (1907), Ryōkan (1758), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Shūji Terayama (1935), Fumiko Enchi (1905), and Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718).

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