WRITER

Francisco Ayala

1906 - 2009

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Francisco Ayala García-Duarte (16 March 1906 – 3 November 2009) was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Ayala has received more than 10,857 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Francisco Ayala is the 2,893rd most popular writer (down from 2,487th in 2019), the 958th most popular biography from Spain (down from 834th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Spanish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

El jardín de las delicias
1971
Muertes de perro
Criticism and interpretation
1958
Recuerdos y olvidos
Biography, Spanish Authors
1982
Los usurpadores
Fiction, History
1949
El rapto
Readers, Spanish language
1965
La cabeza del cordero
Fiction, History, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939
1949

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Francisco Ayala ranks 2,893 out of 7,302. Before him are Bernardo Atxaga, Antiphanes, Fazil Iskander, Yūko Tsushima, John Fletcher, and Tom Stoppard. After him are Huseyn Javid, Léon Daudet, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Walter Pater, Budd Schulberg, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Francisco Ayala ranks 159. Before him are H. C. Hansen, Endre Kabos, Ango Sakaguchi, Andrei Kirilenko, Dmitry Likhachov, and Tribhuvan of Nepal. After him are Marian Spychalski, Eddie Albert, Jean Leray, Raymond Sommer, Fred Lawrence Whipple, and Aileen Riggin. Among people deceased in 2009, Francisco Ayala ranks 135. Before him are Robert Holdstock, Walter Cronkite, Anselmo Duarte, Natalya Estemirova, Pierre Gamarra, and Andrea Mead Lawrence. After him are Budd Schulberg, Horst Szymaniak, Roy E. Disney, Giovanni Arrighi, Jim Rohn, and Abdellatif Filali.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Ayala ranks 958 out of 3,355. Before him are Ramón Franco (1896), Lluís Martínez Sistach (1937), Juan Mata (1988), Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888), Agustina de Aragón (1786), and Bernardo Atxaga (1951). After him are Guillermo Gorostiza (1909), María Blanchard (1881), Pablo Gargallo (1881), Kiti Mánver (1953), Eduardo Dato (1856), and Mathieu Orfila (1787).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Francisco Ayala ranks 102. Before him are Louis of Granada (1504), Luis Cernuda (1902), Juan Marsé (1933), Guillén de Castro y Bellvis (1569), Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888), and Bernardo Atxaga (1951). After him are Jorge Guillén (1893), Juan Pablo Bonet (1579), Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760), José Martínez Ruiz (1873), Juan Ruiz (1283), and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (null).

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