WRITER

Dino Buzzati

1906 - 1972

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Dino Buzzati-Traverso (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdiːno butˈtsaːti]; 14 October 1906 – 28 January 1972) was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dino Buzzati has received more than 270,802 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Dino Buzzati is the 559th most popular writer (up from 570th in 2019), the 689th most popular biography from Italy (up from 708th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Italian Writer.

Dino Buzzati is most famous for his novel The Tartar Steppe.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Short stories
1958
Un amore
1963
In quel preciso momento
1950
Il grande ritratto
1960
Il deserto dei Tartari
1941

Page views of Dino Buzzatis by language

Over the past year Dino Buzzati has had the most page views in the with 110,212 views, followed by French (47,478), and English (37,342). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (860.78%), Haitian (122.68%), and Piedmontese (70.99%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dino Buzzati ranks 559 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Lafargue, Arthur Koestler, W. Somerset Maugham, Francisco de Quevedo, Mikael Agricola, and George Eliot. After him are Ivan Bunin, Georges Perec, Ausonius, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sidney Sheldon, and A. A. Milne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Dino Buzzati ranks 39. Before him are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Degrelle, Hans Asperger, Josef Kramer, Klaus Mann, and Wassily Leontief. After him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Albert Sabin, Vladimir Prelog, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Marcel Carné, and Clyde Tombaugh. Among people deceased in 1972, Dino Buzzati ranks 22. Before him are Katherine Oppenheimer, Talal of Jordan, Paul Hausser, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Erhard Milch, and Maurice Chevalier. After him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Andrei Tupolev, Paul-Henri Spaak, Heinrich Lübke, Max Theiler, and Athenagoras I of Constantinople.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Dino Buzzati ranks 689 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Totti (1976), Gianluigi Buffon (1978), Dario Argento (1940), Francis of Paola (1416), Conrad of Montferrat (1146), and Camillus de Lellis (1550). After him are Pisanello (1395), Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy (1562), Joseph of Cupertino (1603), Agathocles of Syracuse (-361), Nicola Pisano (1225), and Pope Marcellinus (250).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Dino Buzzati ranks 49. Before him are Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Statius (40), Gabriele Amorth (1925), Aulus Gellius (123), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), and Eugenio Montale (1896). After him are Cassiodorus (487), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Poliziano (1454), Curzio Malaparte (1898), Giosuè Carducci (1835), and Pietro Metastasio (1698).

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