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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 95,796 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Claribel Alegría is the 3,937th most popular writer (down from 3,778th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Nicaragua (down from 18th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Nicaraguan Writer.

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  • 96k

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  • 48.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Claribel Alegría ranks 3,937 out of 5,755Before her are Jan Kott, Marie Marvingt, Richard Hakluyt, Edna Ferber, Elisaveta Bagriana, and Wu Jingzi. After her are Barbro Lindgren, Kim Hyon-hui, Adalet Ağaoğlu, Rémy Belleau, Bret Easton Ellis, and Shel Silverstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Claribel Alegría ranks 258Before her are John Love, Colleen Dewhurst, Rafael Iglesias, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, Alberto Uria, and Anthony Caro. After her are Karen Harup, William Rehnquist, Phyllis Schlafly, Fernando Romeo Lucas García, Jimmy Gardner, and Robert Bolt. Among people deceased in 2018, Claribel Alegría ranks 243Before her are Nelson Pereira dos Santos, María Dolores Pradera, Fernando del Paso, Robert Spaemann, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, and Lucian Pintilie. After her are Thomas S. Monson, Claudio Scimone, Inge Borkh, Donald Moffat, Sinan Sakić, and Robert Kerman.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Claribel Alegría ranks 19 out of 29Before her are Edén Pastora (1936), Sergio Ramírez (1942), Gioconda Belli (1948), Miguel Obando y Bravo (1926), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), and José Santos Zelaya (1853). After her are Alexis Argüello (1952), Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871), Leopoldo Brenes (1949), José María Moncada (1870), Fernando Cardenal (1934), and Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier (1949).

Among WRITERS In Nicaragua

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