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James Joyce

1882 - 1941

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James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Joyce has received more than 8,463,514 page views. His biography is available in 152 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 147 in 2019). James Joyce is the 101st most popular writer (down from 68th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Irish Writer.

James Joyce is most famous for his novel Ulysses, which is considered to be one of the most important novels of the 20th century.

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  • 8.5M

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  • 152

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.43

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  • 6.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Joyce ranks 101 out of 7,302. Before him are Emily Brontë, Matsuo Bashō, George Sand, Marquis de Sade, Jonathan Swift, and Ismail I. After him are Virginia Woolf, Paulo Coelho, Abu Nuwas, Du Fu, André Gide, and Stephen King.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, James Joyce ranks 3. Before him are Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Igor Stravinsky. After him are Virginia Woolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, Georgi Dimitrov, Emmy Noether, and Abdullah I of Jordan. Among people deceased in 1941, James Joyce ranks 4. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Rabindranath Tagore, and Henri Bergson. After him are Virginia Woolf, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Maurice Leblanc, Maximilian Kolbe, Emanuel Lasker, Walther Nernst, and Arthur Evans.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, James Joyce ranks 3 out of 549. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), and Jonathan Swift (1667). After him are Robert Boyle (1627), George Bernard Shaw (1856), George Berkeley (1685), Samuel Beckett (1906), Michael Gambon (1940), Francis Bacon (1909), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), Bram Stoker (1847), and Edmund Burke (1729).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, James Joyce ranks 3. Before him are Oscar Wilde (1854), and Jonathan Swift (1667). After him are George Bernard Shaw (1856), Samuel Beckett (1906), Bram Stoker (1847), W. B. Yeats (1865), Laurence Sterne (1713), Iris Murdoch (1919), Joseph Murphy (1898), Ethel Voynich (1864), and Saint Gall (550).

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