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Gerard Reve

1923 - 2006

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Gerard Kornelis van het Reve (14 December 1923 – 8 April 2006) was a Dutch writer. He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve [ˈɣeːrɑrt ˈreːvə] in 1973. Together with Willem Frederik Hermans and Harry Mulisch, he is considered one of the "Great Three" (De Grote Drie) of Dutch post-war literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerard Reve has received more than 155,440 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gerard Reve is the 2,752nd most popular writer (up from 2,774th in 2019), the 432nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 411th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gerard Reve ranks 2,752 out of 5,755. Before him are Balthasar Russow, Joyce Meyer, Kostis Palamas, Heinrich von Veldeke, Alda Merini, and John Wyndham. After him are Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Krishna Sobti, Julius Pomponius Laetus, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Jeff Lindsay, and Paul Gallico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Gerard Reve ranks 167. Before him are Cesare Siepi, Inge Morath, Ellsworth Kelly, Evelyn McHale, Ziba Ganiyeva, and Lydia Clarke. After him are Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Jozef Lenárt, José Giovanni, Ann Miller, Václav Ježek, and René Favaloro. Among people deceased in 2006, Gerard Reve ranks 141. Before him are John Profumo, Johannes Willebrands, W. Montgomery Watt, Peter Boyle, Paul Gleason, and Rudi Carrell. After him are David Gemmell, Shigeru Kayano, Valentín Paniagua, Marie Tharp, Georgios Rallis, and Galina Ustvolskaya.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerard Reve ranks 432 out of 1,427. Before him are Caesar van Everdingen (1616), Rudi Carrell (1934), Jan Akkerman (1946), Jacob van Eyck (1590), Peter Hans Kolvenbach (1928), and Macropedius (1487). After him are Candy Dulfer (1969), Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857), Willy van der Kuijlen (1946), Pierre Cuypers (1827), Pieter Pourbus (1523), and Co Adriaanse (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Gerard Reve ranks 20. Before him are Cornelis de Bruijn (1652), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Herman Gorter (1864), Louis Couperus (1863), Isaac Titsingh (1745), and Macropedius (1487). After him are Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), Jan Luyken (1649), Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Corrie ten Boom (1892), and Tim Krabbé (1943).

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