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Christopher Priest

1943 - 2024

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Christopher Mackenzie Priest (14 July 1943 – 2 February 2024) was a British novelist and science fiction writer. His works include Fugue for a Darkening Island, The Inverted World, The Affirmation, The Glamour, The Prestige, and The Separation. Priest was strongly influenced by the science fiction of H. G. Wells and in 2006 was appointed Vice-President of the international H. G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Christopher Priest has received more than 19,133 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Christopher Priest is the 4,449th most popular writer (down from 3,725th in 2019), the 3,314th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,739th in 2019) and the 379th most popular British Writer.

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  • 19k

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  • 47.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Christopher Priest ranks 4,449 out of 5,755Before him are Zainab Biisheva, Zhu Ziqing, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Irving Wallace, and Keri Hulme. After him are Hilde Domin, Marilyn French, René Depestre, Yann Martel, Zaharia Stancu, and Willem Elsschot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Christopher Priest ranks 397Before him are Jamie Gillis, Andrej Bajuk, Brian Ferneyhough, Terry Venables, Peter Norton, and Harley Race. After him are Janet Akyüz Mattei, Lucius Shepard, Giancarlo De Sisti, Domenico Calcagno, Giuseppe Gentile, and Gavin Bryars. Among people deceased in 2024, Christopher Priest ranks 39Before him are Melanie, Jesse Jane, Don Murray, Donald Adamson, Miguel Ángel González Suárez, and Sergio Sebastiani. After him are Brian Lumley, Jorge Toro, Giacomo Losi, Kagney Linn Karter, Damo Suzuki, and Michel Jazy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Christopher Priest ranks 3,314 out of 7,765Before him are George Bass (1771), Tony Benn (1925), Jane March (1973), Nicholas Hoult (1989), Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946), and Guy Simonds (1903). After him are William Christie (1845), Claire Foy (1984), Jim Bellamy (1881), Sheena Easton (1959), Max Newman (1897), and Dora Boothby (1881).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Christopher Priest ranks 379Before him are Anne Bradstreet (1612), Jackie Collins (1937), Joan Aiken (1924), A. E. Housman (1859), Richard Hoggart (1918), and Sax Rohmer (1883). After him are Edward William Lane (1801), George Chapman (1559), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), John Farey Sr. (1766), Grace Aguilar (1816), and Donald Rayfield (1942).