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George Orwell

1903 - 1950

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Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism. Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Orwell has received more than 18,734,058 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 131 in 2019). George Orwell is the 56th most popular writer (down from 36th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from India (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Writer.

George Orwell is most famous for his dystopian novel 1984.

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  • 19M

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  • 83.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 140

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, George Orwell ranks 56 out of 7,302. Before him are Octave Mirbeau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sappho, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, and Gabriel García Márquez. After him are Astrid Lindgren, Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, Marcel Proust, Giacomo Casanova, and Ayn Rand.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, George Orwell ranks 1. After him are Olav V of Norway, John von Neumann, Konrad Lorenz, Aram Khachaturian, Theodor W. Adorno, Georges Simenon, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Mark Rothko, Habib Bourguiba, C. F. Powell, and Fernandel. Among people deceased in 1950, George Orwell ranks 1. After him are George Bernard Shaw, Gustaf V of Sweden, Joseph Schumpeter, Johannes V. Jensen, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, Heinrich Mann, Willis Carrier, Marcel Mauss, Norman Haworth, and Vallabhbhai Patel.

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In India

Among people born in India, George Orwell ranks 5 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahatma Gandhi (1869), Narendra Modi (1950), Ashoka (-304), and Rajneesh (1931). After him are Amitabh Bachchan (1942), Rabindranath Tagore (1861), A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931), Jawaharlal Nehru (1889), B. R. Ambedkar (1891), Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), and Ramakrishna (1836).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, George Orwell ranks 1. After him are Rabindranath Tagore (1861), Rudyard Kipling (1865), Valmiki (-80), Kālidāsa (400), Salman Rushdie (1947), Tulsidas (1532), Ghalib (1797), Savitribai Phule (1831), Meera (1498), Premchand (1880), and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811).

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