WRITER

Elena Poniatowska

1932 - Today

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Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska (), is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on those considered to be disenfranchised especially women and the poor. She was born in Paris to upper-class parents, including her mother whose family fled Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. She left France for Mexico when she was ten to escape the Second World War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elena Poniatowska has received more than 431,748 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Elena Poniatowska is the 1,983rd most popular writer (up from 2,117th in 2019), the 2,236th most popular biography from France (up from 2,367th in 2019) and the 281st most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Hasta no verte, Jesús mío
Fiction
A sensitive account of the life of Jesusa Palancares de Aguilar follows the young woman from her childhood, through her role in the Mexican Revolution and difficult marriage, to her post-revolutionary criminal career, in a richly textured historical novel that offers an intriguing study of the most important events in Mexican history during the twentieth century. Reprint.
1969
La noche de Tlatelolco
1968
De noche vienes
1979
La piel del cielo
2001
Hasta no verte Jesu s mi o
Fiction
A sensitive account of the life of Jesusa Palancares de Aguilar follows the young woman from her childhood, through her role in the Mexican Revolution and difficult marriage, to her post-revolutionary criminal career, in a richly textured historical novel that offers an intriguing study of the most important events in Mexican history during the twentieth century. Reprint.
1981
Lilus Kikus
1954

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elena Poniatowska ranks 1,983 out of 7,302. Before her are Atsushi Nakajima, Bharavi, Christian Jacq, Étienne Dolet, Sébastien Japrisot, and José Carlos Mariátegui. After her are Sholem Schwarzbard, Cristóbal de Morales, Ahad Ha'am, Alexander Fadeyev, Terentianus, and Jacques Amyot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Elena Poniatowska ranks 144. Before her are Walter Schröder, Renato Martino, John G. Thompson, Alvin Plantinga, Robert Benton, and Chea Sim. After her are Yukio Shimomura, Isao Tomita, Walter Cunningham, Mustafa Tlass, Gato Barbieri, and Vasily Aksyonov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Elena Poniatowska ranks 2,236 out of 6,770. Before her are Joseph Darnand (1897), Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons (1635), Étienne Dolet (1509), and Sébastien Japrisot (1931). After her are Léon Brillouin (1889), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans (1648), Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823), Jacques Amyot (1513), and Joseph Monier (1823).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Elena Poniatowska ranks 281. Before her are Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597), Gustave Kahn (1859), Fred Vargas (1957), Christian Jacq (1947), Étienne Dolet (1509), and Sébastien Japrisot (1931). After her are Jacques Amyot (1513), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), Eugène Marin Labiche (1815), Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis (1746), Julien Gracq (1910), and Matthieu Ricard (1946).

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