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Giovannino Guareschi

1908 - 1968

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Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (Italian: [dʒovanˈniːno ɡwaˈreski]; 1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist whose best known creation is the priest Don Camillo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovannino Guareschi has received more than 126,688 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Giovannino Guareschi is the 1,438th most popular writer (up from 1,466th in 2019), the 1,546th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,542nd in 2019) and the 107th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Giovannino Guareschi ranks 1,438 out of 5,755Before him are Arnold van Gennep, Dositej Obradović, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger, Georges Feydeau, and Du Mu. After him are Heiner Müller, Evelyn Waugh, Wen Tianxiang, Dorothy Parker, Christian Morgenstern, and Allen Carr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Giovannino Guareschi ranks 76Before him are Cus D'Amato, Tex Avery, Amintore Fanfani, Lionel Stander, André Martinet, and Viktor Abakumov. After him are Remedios Varo, Eduard Roschmann, Rómulo Betancourt, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Michael Redgrave, and Libertad Lamarque. Among people deceased in 1968, Giovannino Guareschi ranks 47Before him are Tsuguharu Foujita, Howard Florey, Georgios Papandreou, Husband E. Kimmel, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, and Arnold Zweig. After him are Upton Sinclair, John Heartfield, Leopold Infeld, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Tivadar Soros, and Rezső Seress.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovannino Guareschi ranks 1,546 out of 4,668Before him are Hüma Hatun (1400), Paolo Villaggio (1932), Bernardo Daddi (1290), Maria Celeste (1600), Elizabeth of Sicily, Queen of Hungary (1261), and Girolamo Riario (1443). After him are Damiano Damiani (1922), Franco Battiato (1945), Cicero Minor (-65), Valentina Cortese (1923), Giovanni Ceva (1647), and Domenico Zipoli (1688).

Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Giovannino Guareschi ranks 107Before him are Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Ignazio Silone (1900), Marcus Tullius Tiro (-103), Vladimir Bartol (1903), Ubertino of Casale (1259), and Boris Pahor (1913). After him are Chiara Lubich (1920), Maria Valtorta (1897), Margherita Sarfatti (1880), Giorgio Bassani (1916), Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446), and Clodia Pulchra (-94).