WRITER

Deon Meyer

1958 - Today

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Deon Godfrey Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, writing primarily in Afrikaans. His works have been translated into 28 languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Deon Meyer has received more than 228,427 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Deon Meyer is the 4,470th most popular writer (down from 3,899th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 78th in 2019) and the 10th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Deon Meyer ranks 4,470 out of 7,302. Before him are Titus Quinctius Atta, Pelagonius, Robert Greene, Johann Beckmann, Igor Severyanin, and Dicuil. After him are Ingrid Jonker, Renia Spiegel, Choʻlpon, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Julia Quinn, and Tracy Chevalier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Deon Meyer ranks 207. Before him are Volodymyr Bezsonov, Kornelia Ender, Gigi Becali, Paolo Macchiarini, Mark Cuban, and David Sylvian. After him are Giovanni Lavaggi, Michael López-Alegría, Miki Biasion, Elisabetta Dami, Tom Lister Jr., and Scott Patterson.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Deon Meyer ranks 95 out of 454. Before him are Claude Chevalley (1909), Rudolph Lewis (1887), Basil van Rooyen (1939), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Gary Player (1935), and Eben Dönges (1898). After him are Ingrid Jonker (1933), Chris Hani (1942), Ted Moore (1914), Peter de Klerk (1935), Jan de Klerk (1903), and Mpande kaSenzangakhona (1798).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Deon Meyer ranks 10. Before him are Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Ronald Harwood (1934), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Laurens van der Post (1906), and Breyten Breytenbach (1939). After him are Ingrid Jonker (1933), Alan Paton (1903), Andrew Murray (1828), Elsa Joubert (1922), Antjie Krog (1952), and Athol Fugard (1932).

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