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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 130,889 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Eiko Kadono is the 3,611th most popular writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eiko Kadono ranks 3,611 out of 5,755Before her are John Henry Mackay, Þorbjörn Hornklofi, Driss Chraïbi, I. A. Richards, Ruth Westheimer, and Claude Favre de Vaugelas. After her are Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, Jan Wolkers, Yuri Rytkheu, Aleksey Pisemsky, Zofia Nałkowska, and Connie Willis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Eiko Kadono ranks 230Before her are Sarah Kirsch, Sadiq al-Mahdi, Dimitri Kitsikis, Alexander Men, Yury Solomin, and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg. After her are Enzo Jannacci, Simon Leys, Peter Bichsel, Georgy Shonin, Aulis Sallinen, and Paul Goma.

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