WRITER

Doris Lessing

1919 - 2013

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Doris May Lessing (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Doris Lessing has received more than 2,304,704 page views. Her biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 103 in 2019). Doris Lessing is the 341st most popular writer (down from 240th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Iran (down from 32nd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Iranian Writer.

Doris Lessing is most famous for her novels, which include The Golden Notebook, The Grass is Singing, and The Good Terrorist.

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  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 106

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Doris Lessing ranks 341 out of 7,302. Before her are Paul Celan, Paul Éluard, Lorenzo Valla, Wilhelm Grimm, Callimachus, and Nâzım Hikmet. After her are Arthur Schnitzler, Luqman, Henry Miller, Marguerite Yourcenar, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Max Brod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Doris Lessing ranks 7. Before her are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Eva Perón, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Edmund Hillary, J. D. Salinger, and Primo Levi. After her are Giulio Andreotti, Zhao Ziyang, Kim Jong-suk, Georgios Papadopoulos, Fausto Coppi, and Desmond Doss. Among people deceased in 2013, Doris Lessing ranks 9. Before her are Mikhail Kalashnikov, Hugo Chávez, Peter O'Toole, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Võ Nguyên Giáp, and Jorge Rafael Videla. After her are Heinrich Rohrer, Djalma Santos, Giulio Andreotti, Frederick Sanger, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Douglas Engelbart.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 51 out of 631. Before her are Ardashir I (180), Cambyses I (-600), Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247), and Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882). After her are Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (1932), Yazdegerd III (624), Shirin Ebadi (1947), Ghazan (1271), Astyages (-700), and Abu al-Wafa' Buzjani (940).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 10. Before her are Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Ferdowsi (940), Shams Tabrizi (1185), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Saadi Shirazi (1210), and Jami (1414). After her are Attar of Nishapur (1145), Ibn al-Muqaffa' (724), Magtymguly Pyragy (1733), Ali Shariati (1933), Forough Farrokhzad (1935), and Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543).

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