WRITER

Italo Svevo

1861 - 1928

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Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Italo Svevo has received more than 355,991 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Italo Svevo is the 826th most popular writer (down from 775th in 2019), the 972nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 938th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Italian Writer.

Italo Svevo is most famous for his novel "Confessions of Zeno."

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Italo Svevo ranks 826 out of 7,302. Before him are Ban Gu, Theodor Fontane, Ahmad Khani, Neale Donald Walsch, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, and Ibn Hawqal. After him are Harry Mulisch, Laura de Noves, Venantius Fortunatus, Franz Grillparzer, Zhang Sanfeng, and John Bunyan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Italo Svevo ranks 24. Before him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, H. H. Holmes, Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, and Antoine Bourdelle. After him are Maximilian von Spee, Ranavalona III, Nettie Stevens, István Tisza, Solomon R. Guggenheim, and Armando Diaz. Among people deceased in 1928, Italo Svevo ranks 15. Before him are Pyotr Wrangel, Johannes Fibiger, Theodore William Richards, Zhang Zuolin, Franz Stuck, and Thomas Hardy. After him are Giovanni Giolitti, Myrtle Corbin, Stjepan Radić, Antonio Abetti, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, and Luigi Cadorna.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Italo Svevo ranks 972 out of 5,161. Before him are Odilo Globočnik (1904), Andrea della Robbia (1435), Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1562), Masolino da Panicale (1383), Florianus (232), and Rachele Mussolini (1890). After him are Venantius Fortunatus (530), Lucilla (150), Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400), Italo Gariboldi (1879), Scribonia (-70), and Pietro Pomponazzi (1462).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Italo Svevo ranks 72. Before him are Arrigo Boito (1842), Valerius Maximus (-100), Marie Mancini (1639), Cesare Pavese (1908), Ibycus (-600), and Pietro Bembo (1470). After him are Venantius Fortunatus (530), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Vittoria Colonna (1490), Stesichorus (-630), Gaius Lucilius (-180), and Gnaeus Naevius (-275).

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