WRITER

Ciro Alegría

1909 - 1967

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Ciro Alegría Bazán (November 4, 1909 – February 17, 1967) was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ciro Alegría has received more than 62,198 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ciro Alegría is the 4,269th most popular writer (down from 4,202nd in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from Peru (up from 78th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Peruvian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 62k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Los perros hambrientos
El mundo es ancho y ajeno
Readers, Spanish fiction, Spanish language
La serpiente de oro
Gabriela Mistral íntima
Biography, Chilean Authors

Page views of Ciro Alegrías by language

Over the past year Ciro Alegría has had the most page views in the with 143,508 views, followed by English (5,804), and Russian (985). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Portuguese (136.45%), Belarusian (98.90%), and Galician (96.86%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ciro Alegría ranks 4,269 out of 7,302Before him are August Ahlqvist, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Krishan Chander, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Roy Jacobsen, and Vladislav Khodasevich. After him are Theodore Abu Qurrah, Chen Zi'ang, Luise Rinser, Seán O'Casey, Julius Zeyer, and Steen Steensen Blicher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ciro Alegría ranks 236Before him are Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Roberto Battaglia, Theodor Tolsdorff, Shura Cherkassky, Arvo Askola, and Gheorghe Albu. After him are Karl Gruber, George Saling, Haruko Sugimura, André Vandewyer, Jerzy Różycki, and Toshiko Yuasa. Among people deceased in 1967, Ciro Alegría ranks 174Before him are Ad Reinhardt, Antonio Riberi, Lajos Kassák, Holcombe Ward, Eddie Tolan, and Jobyna Ralston. After him are Henry Luce, Ann Sheridan, Franz Babinger, Arthur Ransome, Jaromír Weinberger, and Thomas Tien Ken-sin.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Ciro Alegría ranks 74 out of 287Before him are Henry Ian Cusick (1967), José Bustamante y Rivero (1894), Héctor Chumpitaz (1943), Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895), Ricardo Palma (1833), and Martín Vizcarra (1963). After him are Mariano Ignacio Prado (1826), Alberto Gallardo (1940), Keiko Fujimori (1975), Susana Higuchi (1950), Nicolás de Piérola (1839), and José de la Riva Agüero (1783).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Ciro Alegría ranks 10Before 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), and Ricardo Palma (1833). After him are Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), Alfredo Bryce (1939), Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854), José Santos Chocano (1875), and Jaime Bayly (1965).