WRITER

Hitoshi Igarashi

1947 - 1991

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Hitoshi Igarashi (五十嵐 一, Igarashi Hitoshi, 10 June 1947 – 11 July 1991) was a Japanese scholar of Arabic and Persian literature and history and the Japanese translator of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hitoshi Igarashi has received more than 526,834 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hitoshi Igarashi is the 2,831st most popular writer (up from 3,105th in 2019), the 836th most popular biography from Japan (up from 861st in 2019) and the 65th most popular Japanese Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 2,831 out of 7,302. Before him are Jorge Bucay, R. A. Salvatore, Aeneas Tacticus, Wolfgang Iser, Louis Couperus, and Guillén de Castro y Bellvis. After him are Adam Michnik, Joseph Delaney, John the Lydian, Pierre Grimal, Ronald Harwood, and Ben Hecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 258. Before him are Maria Farantouri, Su Tseng-chang, Mile Mrkšić, Ray Wise, Gunnar Staalesen, and William Atherton. After him are Peter Strauss, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Dawoud Rajiha, Robertino Loreti, Yūko Tsushima, and Alan Dale. Among people deceased in 1991, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 103. Before him are Artur Lundkvist, Luigi Zampa, Yasushi Inoue, Étienne Decroux, Franco Maria Malfatti, and Metin Oktay. After him are Mario Scelba, Dead, Rufino Tamayo, Andrzej Panufnik, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, and Nicholas Poppe.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 836 out of 6,245. Before him are Isao Iwabuchi (1933), Naoto Tajima (1912), Goro Shimura (1930), Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), Toshio Miyaji (null), and Sō Yoshitoshi (1568). After him are Kōichi Kido (1889), Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Inoue Kaoru (1836), and Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Hitoshi Igarashi ranks 65. Before him are Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Shūji Terayama (1935), Fumiko Enchi (1905), Ōtomo no Yakamochi (718), Kamo no Chōmei (1155), and Takiji Kobayashi (1903). After him are Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Yasutaka Tsutsui (1934), Yūko Tsushima (1947), Takeo Arishima (1878), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), and Ozaki Kōyō (1868).

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