WRITER

Carlos Castaneda

1925 - 1998

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Carlos Castañeda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) was an American writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many when the books were first published, the training he described is now generally considered to be fictional.The first three books—The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality, and Journey to Ixtlan—were written while he was an anthropology student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Castaneda has received more than 2,402,810 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 42 in 2019). Carlos Castaneda is the 303rd most popular writer (up from 320th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Peru and the 3rd most popular Peruvian Writer.

Carlos Castaneda is most famous for his book series, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Art of dreaming
1993
The Teachings of Don Juan
1968
Journey to Ixtlan
1973
The second ring of power
1977
Separate Reality
Body, Mind & Spirit
19714 / 5
The fire from within
1984

Page views of Carlos Castanedas by language

Over the past year Carlos Castaneda has had the most page views in the with 274,465 views, followed by Russian (234,077), and Spanish (160,787). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Belarusian (250.77%), Romanian (127.19%), and Catalan (55.22%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carlos Castaneda ranks 303 out of 7,302. Before him are Jon Fosse, Heinrich von Kleist, Claude Simon, Lucan, Elfriede Jelinek, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. After him are Pierre Beaumarchais, Chrétien de Troyes, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Appian, Antonin Artaud, and Françoise Sagan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Carlos Castaneda ranks 17. Before him are Zygmunt Bauman, Mahathir Mohamad, Albert Bandura, Audie Murphy, Mikis Theodorakis, and Lee Van Cleef. After him are Robert F. Kennedy, Jorge Rafael Videla, Tony Curtis, B.B. King, Jack Lemmon, and Rock Hudson. Among people deceased in 1998, Carlos Castaneda ranks 7. Before him are Pol Pot, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, Jean Marais, Halldór Laxness, and Todor Zhivkov. After him are Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, Yang Shangkun, and Vladimir Prelog.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Carlos Castaneda ranks 6 out of 287. Before him are Atahualpa (1502), Lina Medina (1933), Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), Isabel Allende (1942), and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920). After him are Alberto Fujimori (1938), Túpac Amaru (1545), Manco Cápac (1250), Rose of Lima (1586), Pachacuti (1380), and Túpac Amaru II (1738).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Carlos Castaneda ranks 3. Before him are Mario Vargas Llosa (1936), and Isabel Allende (1942). After him are Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), José María Arguedas (1911), Ricardo Palma (1833), Ciro Alegría (1909), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), and Alfredo Bryce (1939).

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