WRITER

Ernesto Sabato

1911 - 2011

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Ernesto Sabato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernesto Sabato has received more than 367,475 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Ernesto Sabato is the 858th most popular writer (up from 1,005th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Argentina and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Writer.

Ernesto Sabato is most famous for his novel, "The Tunnel," which was published in 1948. The novel is about a young man who is on the verge of committing suicide when he meets a mysterious stranger.

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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ernesto Sabato ranks 858 out of 7,302. Before him are Ahmed Deedat, Vicente Aleixandre, Meša Selimović, Philippe Ariès, Jan Neruda, and Ibn al-Jawzi. After him are Iris Murdoch, John Fante, Ambrose Bierce, Philostratus, Peter Weiss, and Frederick Forsyth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ernesto Sabato ranks 40. Before him are William Howard Stein, Niels Kaj Jerne, Ginger Rogers, Max Frisch, Odysseas Elytis, and Trygve Haavelmo. After him are John Archibald Wheeler, Herta Oberheuser, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Baer, L. Ron Hubbard, and Bruno Kreisky. Among people deceased in 2011, Ernesto Sabato ranks 36. Before him are Manfred Gerlach, Necmettin Erbakan, Christa Wolf, Ralph M. Steinman, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., and Herbert A. Hauptman. After him are Lynn Margulis, Jorge Semprún, Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Tomislav Ivić, Baruj Benacerraf, and Zdeněk Miler.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Ernesto Sabato ranks 37 out of 1,154. Before him are Raúl Alfonsín (1927), César Luis Menotti (1938), Richard Walther Darré (1895), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), Mauricio Macri (1959), and Carlos Reutemann (1942). After him are Luis Monti (1901), Javier Zanetti (1973), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), Fernando de la Rúa (1937), Lucio Fontana (1899), and César Pelli (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Ernesto Sabato ranks 2. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899). After him are Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and María Kodama (1937).

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