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Doris Lessing

1919 - 2013

Doris Lessing

Doris May Lessing (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) 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 1,165,801 page views. Her biography is available in 94 different languages on Wikipedia making her the 182nd most popular writer.

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  • 72.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 94

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Doris Lessing ranks 180 out of 4,883. Before her are Joseph Conrad, John the Evangelist, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ferdowsi, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Coen brothers. After her are Nizami Ganjavi, Juvenal, Friedrich Hölderlin, Karel Čapek, Jean Racine, and Helena Blavatsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Doris Lessing ranks 5. Before her are Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Eva Perón, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Edmund Hillary. After her are J. D. Salinger, Primo Levi, Desmond Doss, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Fausto Coppi, and Nat King Cole. Among people deceased in 2013, Doris Lessing ranks 5. Before her are Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and Hugo Chávez. After her are Võ Nguyên Giáp, Peter O'Toole, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Jorge Rafael Videla, Frederick Sanger, Douglas Engelbart, and Tom Clancy.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 20 out of 374. Before her are Jabir ibn Hayyan (721), Ismail I (1487), Ulugh Beg (1394), Hassan-i Sabbah (1050), Abu Nuwas (762), and Ferdowsi (940). After her are Saadi Shirazi (1210), Tahmasp I (1514), Reza Shah (1878), Bahá'u'lláh (1817), Darius II (-475), and Khosrow I (501).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Doris Lessing ranks 6. Before her are Euripides (-480), Hafez (1325), Ismail I (1487), Abu Nuwas (762), and Ferdowsi (940). After her are Saadi Shirazi (1210), Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1201), Mansur Al-Hallaj (858), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Shams Tabrizi (1185), and Ali Shariati (1933).

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