WRITER

Jorge Ibargüengoitia

1928 - 1983

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Jorge Ibargüengoitia Antillón (January 22, 1928 – November 27, 1983) was a Mexican novelist and playwright who achieved great popular and critical success with his satires, three of which have appeared in English: The Dead Girls, Two Crimes, and The Lightning of August. His plays include Susana y los Jóvenes and Ante varias esfinges, both dating from the 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jorge Ibargüengoitia has received more than 77,909 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Ibargüengoitia is the 4,617th most popular writer (down from 4,146th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 202nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Mexican Writer.

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  • 78k

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  • 48.66

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Los Relampagos de Agosto
2003
La ley de Herodes y otros cuentos
1967
Las muertas
1977
Maten al león
1969
Los relámpagos de agosto
Mexican revolution, Mexican politics, novel
A sarcastic novel that parodies the memoirs written by veterans of the 1910 Mexican Revolution and the armed uprisings that followed it.
1964
Dos crímenes
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jorge Ibargüengoitia ranks 4,617 out of 7,302. Before him are John Piper, Ronald Knox, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Javier Cercas, Peter Carey, and Gordon Willis. After him are Gonçalves Dias, Anita Loos, Agnes Miegel, Robert Lowell, Staka Skenderova, and Eugenio Espejo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Jorge Ibargüengoitia ranks 376. Before him are Amotz Zahavi, Serge Bourguignon, Danuta Siedzikówna, Ennio de Giorgi, Åke Johansson, and Sivaji Ganesan. After him are Léon Glovacki, Germà Colón, Belaid Abdessalam, Jean Barraqué, Horst Stein, and Rance Howard. Among people deceased in 1983, Jorge Ibargüengoitia ranks 166. Before him are Diego Abad de Santillán, Gyula Illyés, Marguerite Broquedis, Chabuca Granda, Gyula Lázár, and Mordecai Kaplan. After him are Otto Heckmann, Jaime Lazcano, Alfonso Calzolari, Choi Chung-min, Fyodor Abramov, and Earl Tupper.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Jorge Ibargüengoitia ranks 226 out of 729. Before him are Gilbert Roland (1905), Luis E. Miramontes (1925), Irma Serrano (1933), Diego Luna (1979), Rodolfo Neri Vela (1952), and Juan Álvarez (1790). After him are Lupita Nyong'o (1983), Lucas Alamán (1792), Lola Beltrán (1932), Alfonso Arau (1932), Arturo de Córdova (1908), and Juan José Arreola (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Jorge Ibargüengoitia ranks 15. Before him are Mariano Azuela (1873), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Amado Nervo (1870), Cesar Millan (1969), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), and Guillermo Arriaga (1958). After him are Juan José Arreola (1921), José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776), Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834), Martín Luis Guzmán (1887), Carlos Monsiváis (1938), and Sabina Berman (1955).

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