WRITER

Brian Friel

1929 - 2015

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Brian Patrick Friel (c. 9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, short story writer and founder of the Field Day Theatre Company. He had been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian Friel has received more than 483,145 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Brian Friel is the 6,336th most popular writer (down from 5,804th in 2019), the 5,456th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,152nd in 2019) and the 623rd most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 480k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The freedom of the city
English drama
1974
Philadelphia, here I come!
Drama
1965
Translations
open_syllabus_project
1981
The loves of Cass McGuire
1967
Dancing at Lughnasa
English drama, Irish authors
It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live the five Mundy sisters, barely making ends meet, their ages ranging from twenty-six up to forty. The two male members of the household are brother Jack, a missionary priest, repatriated from Africa by his superiors after twenty-five years, and the seven-year-old child of the youngest sister. In depicting two days in the life of this menage, Brian Friel evokes not simply the interior landscape of a group of human beings trapped in their domestic situation, but the wider landscape, interior and exterior, Christian and pagan, of which they are nonetheless a part.
1990
The diviner
Social life and customs, Fiction
1983

Page views of Brian Friels by language

Over the past year Brian Friel has had the most page views in the with 52,232 views, followed by French (2,186), and Russian (1,557). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (131.33%), Belarusian (114.81%), and Persian (89.21%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Brian Friel ranks 6,336 out of 7,302. Before him are Terry Southern, Stella Gibbons, Alberto Dines, Veronica Roth, Bill Prady, and Kathleen Raine. After him are Pat Conroy, Angie Sage, Dominique Bona, Damon Galgut, Arthur Kopit, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Brian Friel ranks 512. Before him are James H. Billington, Jerry Adler, Ann Robinson, Johnny Ace, Josef Kloimstein, and Sartaj Aziz. After him are Ronnie Allen, Ali Mirzaei, Lode Wouters, Alfredo Lim, Buck Owens, and Fred Martin. Among people deceased in 2015, Brian Friel ranks 467. Before him are Ernie Banks, Amelia Boynton Robinson, Marisa Del Frate, Hitoshi Saito, Robert La Caze, and Jim Loscutoff. After him are Bob Burns, Gerry Byrne, Bruno Visintin, Martin Milner, Mal Whitfield, and Happy Rockefeller.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Brian Friel ranks 5,456 out of 8,785. Before him are Roy Evans (1948), Stella Gibbons (1902), Ellie Goulding (1986), Kathleen Raine (1908), David Payne (1843), and Benjamin Whitrow (1937). After him are Angela Cartwright (1952), Angie Sage (1952), Sarita Choudhury (1966), Laurie Scott (1917), Tony Curran (1969), and Howard Hodgkin (1932).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Brian Friel ranks 623. Before him are Thomas Warton (1728), Andrew Davies (1936), Henry Vaughan (1621), William Roscoe (1753), Stella Gibbons (1902), and Kathleen Raine (1908). After him are Angie Sage (1952), Susan Hill (1942), Compton Mackenzie (1883), John Skelton (1460), P. H. Newby (1918), and Charles Lock Eastlake (1793).

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