WRITER

Ignazio Silone

1900 - 1978

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Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, Italian: [iɲˈɲattsjo siˈloːne]), was an Italian political leader, novelist, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fascist novels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ignazio Silone has received more than 142,556 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Ignazio Silone is the 1,349th most popular writer (down from 1,296th in 2019), the 1,487th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,423rd in 2019) and the 102nd most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Pane e vino
Italian fiction, Fiction
1936
Fontamara
Readers, History, Italian language
1933
Una manciata di more
1952
Il segreto di Luca
1956
Il seme sotto la neve
1945
Uscita di sicurezza
Communism
1955

Page views of Ignazio Silones by language

Over the past year Ignazio Silone has had the most page views in the with 60,609 views, followed by German (30,178), and English (17,867). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Galician (191.79%), German (97.16%), and Piedmontese (60.00%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ignazio Silone ranks 1,349 out of 7,302. Before him are Henri Murger, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Adalberon, Edith Södergran, Georgi Markov, and Abu Tammam. After him are Quintus Fabius Pictor, Mukhtar Auezov, Nikolaus Lenau, Xavier de Maistre, Jean M. Auel, and Robert de Montesquiou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Ignazio Silone ranks 61. Before him are Evald Aav, Werner Haase, Mária Telkes, Rudolf Diels, Helen Hayes, and Filipp Golikov. After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Franz Walter Stahlecker, Robert Siodmak, Aaron Copland, Karin Boye, and Helene Weigel. Among people deceased in 1978, Ignazio Silone ranks 49. Before him are Guo Moruo, Hannah Höch, Ida Noddack, Keith Moon, Harvey Milk, and Georgi Markov. After him are Wadie Haddad, Henry Corbin, Sisavang Vatthana, Burt Munro, Tetsu Katayama, and Pablo Dorado.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Ignazio Silone ranks 1,487 out of 5,161. Before him are Carlo Levi (1902), Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1538), Saint Chrysogonus (250), Fabrizio De André (1940), Felice Gimondi (1942), and Gian Maria Visconti (1388). After him are Francesco Crispi (1818), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Bernardino Ramazzini (1633), Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486), Julia Flavia (64), and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Ignazio Silone ranks 102. Before him are Boris Pahor (1913), Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Claudio Magris (1939), Gaius Asinius Pollio (-76), Matteo Bandello (1484), and Ubertino of Casale (1259). After him are Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Enzo of Sardinia (1220), Thomas of Celano (1185), Jacopo Sannazaro (1458), and Catherine of Bologna (1413).

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