WRITER

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 433,116 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Horacio Quiroga is the 2,005th most popular writer (down from 1,730th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 28th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Uruguayan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Short stories
Rain forests, Criticism and interpretation, Fiction
1937
Anaconda
Buenos Aires Palacio de la Cultura Americana
1930
Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte
Ficción, Cuentos, Fiction
1900
Cuentos de la selva
Animals, Folklore, Juvenile fiction
1940
El desierto
Uruguayan Short stories
1924
El salvaje
Uruguayan Short stories
1920

Page views of Horacio Quirogas by language

Over the past year Horacio Quiroga has had the most page views in the with 530,095 views, followed by English (38,147), and Portuguese (7,080). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Tagalog (1,492.71%), Egyptian Arabic (59.12%), and Italian (51.84%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Horacio Quiroga ranks 2,005 out of 7,302. Before him are Jorge Manrique, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Mohamed Choukri, Joseph Kessel, Eugène Marin Labiche, and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis. After him are Saki, Caterina Albert, Izabela Czartoryska, S. Ansky, Christopher Isherwood, and Yuan Zhen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Horacio Quiroga ranks 68. Before him are Wallace Hartley, C. Rajagopalachari, Paul Troost, Stephen Timoshenko, Walter Heitz, and Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir. After him are Maurice René Fréchet, José Miaja, Alexander Tamanian, Kurt Goldstein, Wander Johannes de Haas, and Erich Mühsam. Among people deceased in 1937, Horacio Quiroga ranks 64. Before him are Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse, Iona Yakir, Elihu Thomson, Ida Dalser, and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky. After him are Evgeny Pashukanis, Alexander Shliapnikov, Philip de László, Gabriel Pierné, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, and Jenő Hubay.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Horacio Quiroga ranks 40 out of 444. Before him are Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Óscar Míguez (1927), Bernardo Arévalo (1958), Fructuoso Rivera (1784), Santos Iriarte (1902), and Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941). After him are Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923), Álvaro Gestido (1907), Peregrino Anselmo (1902), Luis Cubilla (1940), Domingo Tejera (1899), and Manuel Oribe (1792).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Horacio Quiroga ranks 6. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont (1846), Eduardo Galeano (1940), Mario Benedetti (1920), Jules Laforgue (1860), and Juan Carlos Onetti (1909). After him are 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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