WRITER

Claribel Alegría

1924 - 2018

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Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claribel Alegría has received more than 102,085 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Claribel Alegría is the 3,973rd most popular writer (down from 3,924th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Nicaragua (up from 19th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Nicaraguan Writer.

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  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Claribel Alegría ranks 3,973 out of 7,302. Before her are Daniel Boulanger, Lope de Rueda, James Allen, Joan Aiken, Lino Aldani, and Philipp Nicolai. After her are Palaephatus, Elena Văcărescu, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Shinichi Hoshi, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, and Irena Veisaitė.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Claribel Alegría ranks 260. Before her are Theodore Bikel, Vladimir Semichastny, Olga Gyarmati, Paruyr Sevak, Robert Webber, and Joan Aiken. After her are Riccardo Cucciolla, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Emmanuel Scheffer, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Lloyd Alexander, and Hidemaro Watanabe. Among people deceased in 2018, Claribel Alegría ranks 241. Before her are Yoshinori Shigematsu, Geoff Emerick, Károly Palotai, Bradford Dillman, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, and Tomás Maldonado. After her are Kader Khan, Oliver Ivanović, Marijan Beneš, Jean Bourgain, Theo-Ben Gurirab, and Alexander Zakharchenko.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Claribel Alegría ranks 17 out of 34. Before her are Bianca Jagger (1945), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), Gioconda Belli (1948), Sergio Ramírez (1942), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), and Edén Pastora (1936). After her are Miguel Obando y Bravo (1926), José Santos Zelaya (1853), Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871), Alexis Argüello (1952), Carlos Fonseca (1936), and José María Moncada (1870).

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Among WRITERS In Nicaragua

Among writers born in Nicaragua, Claribel Alegría ranks 4. Before her are Rubén Darío (1867), Gioconda Belli (1948), and Sergio Ramírez (1942).

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