WRITER

Hitomi Kanehara

1983 - Today

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Hitomi Kanehara (金原 ひとみ, Kanehara Hitomi, born August 8, 1983) is a Japanese novelist. Her novel Hebi ni piasu (Snakes and Earrings) won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and sold over a million copies in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hitomi Kanehara has received more than 57,796 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Hitomi Kanehara is the 7,158th most popular writer (down from 6,390th in 2019), the 2,751st most popular biography from Japan (down from 2,537th in 2019) and the 120th most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 31.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Haidora =
2007
Asshu beibī
2004
Autofiction
2008
Amībikku =
2005
Snakes and Earrings
2005
Hoshi e ochiru
Man-woman relationships, Fiction
2007

Page views of Hitomi Kaneharas by language

Over the past year Hitomi Kanehara has had the most page views in the with 128,209 views, followed by English (7,585), and Chinese (2,867). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (170.18%), Catalan (150.88%), and Portuguese (54.06%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hitomi Kanehara ranks 7,158 out of 7,302. Before her are Mohsin Hamid, Espido Freire, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chetan Bhagat, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Owen Gleiberman. After her are Meena Alexander, Judith Wright, Chris Abani, J. G. Quintel, Jane Espenson, and Kristin Cashore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1983, Hitomi Kanehara ranks 812. Before her are Roya Sadat, Sarah Wright, Xavier Chen, Martin Shkreli, Evan Taubenfeld, and Somen Tchoyi. After her are Sergei Kornilenko, Marco Padalino, Frederik Nielsen, Nicol David, Leandro Domingues, and Chris Masters.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hitomi Kanehara ranks 2,751 out of 6,245. Before her are Kenji Komata (1964), Shu Kurata (1988), Hana Kimura (1997), Misaki Kuno (1993), Aria Jasour Hasegawa (1988), and Ippei Watanabe (1969). After her are Kenyu Sugimoto (1992), Yoshinori Higashikawa (1964), Misono (1984), Masaharu Nishi (1977), Noriko Senge (1988), and Kazuhiro Koso (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hitomi Kanehara ranks 120. Before her are Reiko Yoshida (1967), Phyllis A. Whitney (1903), Sayaka Murata (1979), Nagaru Tanigawa (1970), Sui Ishida (1986), and Kaori Ekuni (1964).

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