WRITER

Carmen Laforet

1921 - 2004

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Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 6 September 1921 – Madrid, 28 February 2004) was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carmen Laforet has received more than 112,284 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Carmen Laforet is the 3,355th most popular writer (down from 2,437th in 2019), the 1,106th most popular biography from Spain (down from 815th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Carmen Laforet ranks 3,355 out of 7,302. Before her are Valerius Antias, John Ford, Karl Ove Knausgård, Eysteinn Erlendsson, Morgan Robertson, and Bernardo Guimarães. After her are Rhianus, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Al-A'sha, Rose Wilder Lane, Jean-Claude Izzo, and Gunnar Heiberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Carmen Laforet ranks 201. Before her are Piero Piccioni, Carlo Furno, Willem Frederik Hermans, Augusto Monterroso, Harry Schell, and Viktor Chukarin. After her are Joseph A. Walker, Jacques Lecoq, Rashid Karami, Judy Holliday, Ziya Bunyadov, and Pierre Bec. Among people deceased in 2004, Carmen Laforet ranks 143. Before her are Cem Karaca, Hubert Selby Jr., Juan Zambudio Velasco, Piero Piccioni, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and Kalevi Sorsa. After her are Christer Pettersson, Rogelio Domínguez, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Ivan Hlinka, Ryszard Kukliński, and Carlo Rustichelli.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Carmen Laforet ranks 1,106 out of 3,355. Before her are Nicanor Zabaleta (1907), Enrique Collar (1934), Ricardo María Carles Gordó (1926), Joan Coromines (1905), Pedro Arico Suárez (1908), and Ángel Sanz Briz (1910). After her are José Manuel Pinto (1975), Seve Ballesteros (1957), Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos (-135), Javier Urruticoechea (1952), Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886), and Juan Manuel Asensi (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Carmen Laforet ranks 122. Before her are Ildefonso Falcones (1959), Joan Brossa (1919), Ramón Chao (1935), Dámaso Alonso (1898), Salvador Espriu (1913), and Enrique Vila-Matas (1948). After her are Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886), Juan Boscán Almogáver (1490), Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas (1791), Rosa Montero (1951), Gonzalo de Berceo (1197), and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856).

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