WRITER

Banjo Paterson

1864 - 1941

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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author, widely considered one of the greatest writers of Australia's colonial period. Born in rural New South Wales, Paterson worked as a lawyer before transitioning into literature, where he quickly gained recognition for capturing the life of the Australian bush. A representative of the Bulletin School of Australian literature, Paterson wrote many of his best known poems for the nationalist journal The Bulletin, including "Clancy of the Overflow" (1889) and "The Man from Snowy River" (1890). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Banjo Paterson has received more than 1,170,581 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Banjo Paterson is the 3,075th most popular writer (up from 5,644th in 2019), the 97th most popular biography from Australia (up from 301st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Australian Writer.

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  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Banjo Paterson ranks 3,075 out of 7,302. Before him are Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Subh-i-Azal, Lois Lowry, Wang Bo, Abdulah Sidran, and Arno Schmidt. After him are Robert Fisk, Antonio Fogazzaro, Abbās al-Aqqād, William Ernest Henley, Yulian Semyonov, and Sylvain Maréchal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Banjo Paterson ranks 94. Before him are Toktogul Satylganov, Ricarda Huch, Tsuda Umeko, Alexander Dutov, Nathan Birnbaum, and George Washington Carver. After him are Maud Watson, Léon Gaumont, José Gregorio Hernández, Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Futabatei Shimei, and Marguerite Durand. Among people deceased in 1941, Banjo Paterson ranks 109. Before him are Huseyn Javid, Nicolae Titulescu, Olga Kameneva, Wilhelm Kienzl, Frank Bridge, and George Abraham Grierson. After him are Mario García Menocal, Alfred Pringsheim, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Louis Marcoussis, Kazimierz Bartel, and George Minne.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Banjo Paterson ranks 97 out of 1,143. Before him are Leo McKern (1920), Anthony Albanese (1963), Jason Clarke (1969), Travis Fimmel (1979), John Curtin (1885), and Christopher Doyle (1952). After him are Jacki Weaver (1947), Edmund Barton (1849), Miranda Otto (1967), Bob Hawke (1929), Vernon Wells (1945), and David Warren (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Banjo Paterson ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Keneally (1935), Annette Kellermann (1887), Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), Morris West (1916), James Aldridge (1918), and Germaine Greer (1939). After him are John Flanagan (1944), Joan Lindsay (1896), Gregory David Roberts (1952), Peter Carey (1943), Greg Egan (1961), and Trudi Canavan (1969).

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