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Horacio Quiroga

1878 - 1937

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Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza (31 December 1878 – 19 February 1937) was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. He wrote stories which, in their jungle settings, used the supernatural and the bizarre to show the struggle of man and animal to survive. He also excelled in portraying mental illness and hallucinatory states, a skill he gleaned from Edgar Allan Poe, according to some critics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horacio Quiroga has received more than 436,613 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Horacio Quiroga is the 1,734th most popular writer (up from 1,809th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 29th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Uruguayan Writer.

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  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Horacio Quiroga ranks 1,734 out of 5,755. Before him are Konstantin Ushinsky, Sophie de Condorcet, Jurji Zaydan, Pierre Plantard, Constantijn Huygens, and Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. After him are Edward Lear, João de Barros, Mór Jókai, Malcolm Lowry, Eupolis, and Anonymus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Horacio Quiroga ranks 59. Before him are Paul Pelliot, Wallace Hartley, Stephen Timoshenko, Franz Schreker, Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and C. Rajagopalachari. After him are Hans Ledwinka, Eino Leino, Paul Troost, Lionel Barrymore, Walter Heitz, and Manuel L. Quezon. Among people deceased in 1937, Horacio Quiroga ranks 57. Before him are Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Diana Abgar, Iona Yakir, Attila József, and Alikhan Bukeikhanov. After him are Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Gabriel Pierné, Hugo Meisl, Evgeny Pashukanis, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, and William Sealy Gosset.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Horacio Quiroga ranks 28 out of 370. Before him are Enzo Francescoli (1961), Pedro Rocha (1942), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Pedro Petrone (1905), Luisa Cuesta (1920), and Pablo Dorado (1908). After him are Alberto Suppici (1898), Roque Máspoli (1917), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Natalia Oreiro (1977), and Julio María Sanguinetti (1936).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Horacio Quiroga ranks 5. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont (1846), Eduardo Galeano (1940), Mario Benedetti (1920), and Jules Laforgue (1860). After him are Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Jules Supervielle (1884), Delmira Agustini (1886), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), Ida Vitale (1923), and José Enrique Rodó (1871).

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