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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester

1910 - 1999

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Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (13 June 1910 – 27 January 1999) was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester has received more than 79,931 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Gonzalo Torrente Ballester is the 3,629th most popular writer (down from 3,554th in 2019), the 1,127th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,074th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 80k

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  • 49.74

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ranks 3,629 out of 5,755Before him are Alberto Hurtado, Kerstin Ekman, Jules Barbier, Radclyffe Hall, Shushanik Kurghinian, and Louise Weiss. After him are Castor of Rhodes, Bertus Aafjes, Nikola Vaptsarov, Justus Jonas, Simon Leys, and Viktor Nekrasov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ranks 177Before him are Douglas Bader, Gunter d'Alquen, Edmund Leach, Marc Lawrence, José María Guido, and Léon Poliakov. After him are Aldo Olivieri, Antal Szabó, Paul Sweezy, Erkki Aaltonen, Cahit Arf, and Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1999, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ranks 136Before him are Grete Stern, Richard Kiley, Susan Strasberg, Mario Soldati, Art Farmer, and Lee Falk. After him are Georges Miez, Nise da Silveira, David A. Huffman, Yevgeny Morgunov, Nilde Iotti, and František Vláčil.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ranks 1,127 out of 2,932Before him are Eduardo Fajardo (1924), Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856), Valeriano Weyler (1838), Francisco Fernández Ochoa (1950), José Enrique Varela (1891), and Ruperto Chapí (1851). After him are Federico Moreno Torroba (1891), Elena Anaya (1975), Dani Carvajal (1992), Enrique Irazoqui (1944), Gloria Fuertes (1917), and Campanal I (1912).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester ranks 135Before him are Ramón Chao (1935), Ildefonso Falcones (1959), Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda (1862), Carmen Martín Gaite (1925), Lola Anglada (1892), and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo (1856). After him are Gloria Fuertes (1917), Lope de Rueda (1500), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), Enrique Vila-Matas (1948), Alejandro Casona (1903), and José Cadalso (1741).