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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 10,192 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Francisco Ayala is the 2,495th most popular writer (up from 2,502nd in 2019), the 834th most popular biography from Spain (down from 818th in 2019) and the 95th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 10k

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  • 53.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Francisco Ayala ranks 2,495 out of 5,755Before him are Juan de Valdés, Posidippus, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, Jonas Jonasson, Emma Jung, and William Peter Blatty. After him are Maciej Stryjkowski, Édouard Glissant, E. Nesbit, Anne McCaffrey, Vasko Popa, and Larry Niven.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Francisco Ayala ranks 135Before him are Yasuo Haruyama, Lilian Harvey, Enrico Mattei, T. H. White, Jim Thompson, and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen. After him are Jørgen Juve, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Virginia Hall, Missak Manouchian, Alec Issigonis, and Eddie Albert. Among people deceased in 2009, Francisco Ayala ranks 115Before him are Susanna Agnelli, John Hughes, Marilyn Chambers, Willy DeVille, Vyacheslav Ivankov, and Gene Barry. After him are Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Walter Cronkite, Johannes Mario Simmel, Budd Schulberg, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, and Henry Allingham.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Francisco Ayala ranks 834 out of 2,932Before him are Muhammad III of Córdoba (976), Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (1454), Pedro Arias Dávila (1443), Rodrigo de Bastidas (1460), Juan de Valdés (1505), and Luis Fernández (1959). After him are García Jiménez of Pamplona (800), Juan Ruiz (1283), Gaspar Cassadó (1897), Alonso Berruguete (1488), Jacinto Quincoces (1905), and Ignacio Zuloaga (1870).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Francisco Ayala ranks 95Before him are Salvador de Madariaga (1886), Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1532), Alfonso Sastre (1926), Moses ibn Ezra (1060), Carmen Laforet (1921), and Juan de Valdés (1505). After him are Juan Ruiz (1283), Alonso de Ercilla (1533), Àngel Guimerà (1845), Lucía Sánchez Saornil (1895), Juan Marsé (1933), and Pedro Salinas (1891).