WRITER

Jorge Edwards

1931 - 2023

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Jorge Edwards Valdés (29 June 1931 – 17 March 2023) was a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jorge Edwards has received more than 47,216 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Edwards is the 4,490th most popular writer (up from 4,700th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Chile (up from 113th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Chilean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 47k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Persona non grata
Politics and government, Diplomats, Biography
1973
El peso de la noche
Chilean fiction
1967
El museo de cera
1968
Los convidados de piedra
Spanish language materials
1978
Persona non grata
2009
El inútil de la familia
Fiction, Ficción
2004

Page views of Jorge Edwards by language

Over the past year Jorge Edwards has had the most page views in the with 19,057 views, followed by English (5,448), and French (1,396). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (289.77%), Latin (92.46%), and Simple English (45.04%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jorge Edwards ranks 4,490 out of 7,302. Before him are Turan Dursun, El-Registan, Reginald Rose, Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen, Walter Savage Landor, and Florian Ceynowa. After him are Gregório de Matos, François le Métel de Boisrobert, Agnieszka Osiecka, Jesús Moncada, Hranush Arshagyan, and Yashpal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Jorge Edwards ranks 331. Before him are Ingrid van Bergen, Lonnie Donegan, Hennadiy Udovenko, Greg, Sakyo Komatsu, and Madeleine Berthod. After him are Wynton Kelly, Murad Wilfried Hofmann, André Noyelle, Diana Dors, John Baldessari, and Ángel Berni. Among people deceased in 2023, Jorge Edwards ranks 391. Before him are Norman Lear, Francesco Maselli, Herschel Savage, Gérard Latortue, Ganira Pashayeva, and François Bracci. After him are Tom Verlaine, Owen Davidson, Barry Newman, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Grace Bumbry, and Charles Simic.

Others Born in 1931

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Jorge Edwards ranks 87 out of 321. Before him are Chris Watson (1867), Diego Portales (1793), Domingo Santa María (1825), Sergio Livingstone (1920), José Joaquín Pérez (1801), and Juan Antonio Ríos (1888). After him are Gary Medel (1987), Eliseo Salazar (1954), Lucho Gatica (1928), César Espinoza (1900), Juan Luis Sanfuentes (1858), and Marcelo Ríos (1975).

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Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Jorge Edwards ranks 14. Before him are Antonio Skármeta (1940), José Donoso (1924), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Cristina Calderón (1928), Alberto Hurtado (1901), and Francisco Coloane (1910). After him are Gonzalo Rojas (1917), and Snooki (1987).

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