WRITER

Eiko Kadono

1935 - Today

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Eiko Kadono (角野 栄子, Kadono Eiko), real name Eiko Watanabe (渡辺英子, Watanabe Eiko), born January 1, 1935, is a Japanese author of children's literature, picture books, non-fiction, and essays in Shōwa and Heisei period in Japan. Her most famous work Kiki's Delivery Service, released in 1985, was made into an anime film by Hayao Miyazaki, and spawned a series of sequel novels. In 2018, she won the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eiko Kadono has received more than 145,368 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Eiko Kadono is the 3,643rd most popular writer (down from 3,598th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eiko Kadono ranks 3,643 out of 7,302. Before her are Johann Heinrich Voss, Aleksey Pisemsky, Michitsuna's mother, Alessandro Tassoni, Ivo Vojnović, and Tibor Déry. After her are Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, Lillian Hellman, Siegfried Sassoon, Ghada al-Samman, John Ashbery, and Felix Timmermans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Eiko Kadono ranks 235. Before her are Ronald Graham, Norma Bengell, Velasio de Paolis, Sabahudin Kurt, Josef Vojta, and Jaromil Jireš. After her are Fabio Cudicini, Juan Bautista Agüero, Grigore Vieru, Yıldırım Akbulut, Jorge Griffa, and Laurent Terzieff.

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