WRITER

Jorge Icaza Coronel

1906 - 1978

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Jorge Icaza Coronel (July 10, 1906 – May 26, 1978), commonly referred to as Jorge Icaza, was a writer from Ecuador, best known for his novel Huasipungo, which brought attention to the exploitation of Ecuador's indigenous people by Ecuadorian whites. He was born in Quito in 1906 and died of cancer in the same city in 1978. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jorge Icaza Coronel has received more than 46,030 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Icaza Coronel is the 5,394th most popular writer (down from 4,912th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Ecuador (down from 35th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ecuadorean Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 1.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jorge Icaza Coronel ranks 5,394 out of 7,302. Before him are Kim Newman, Catharine Trotter Cockburn, Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, László Németh, Karim Rashid, and Roland Dorgelès. After him are Adolf Bartels, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Ring Lardner, Aya Kitō, Elizabeth Hawley, and José Carlos Somoza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Jorge Icaza Coronel ranks 324. Before him are Benjamin Mazar, Jean Delarge, Harry Hopman, Nils Skoglund, Richard Rado, and Richard Llewellyn. After him are Henry Roth, Kang Kyeong-ae, Willibald Kreß, Gustav Schäfer, Luis Marín, and Sara Ashurbeyli. Among people deceased in 1978, Jorge Icaza Coronel ranks 201. Before him are Oscar Homolka, Isidro Ayora, Gregor Wentzel, Malvina Reynolds, Cyrille Adoula, and Will Geer. After him are Jesús Glaría, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Adolf van der Voort van Zijp, Ljubiša Stevanović, Jorge de Sena, and Peggy Wood.

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In Ecuador

Among people born in Ecuador, Jorge Icaza Coronel ranks 41 out of 147. Before him are Lucio Gutiérrez (1957), Vicente Ramón Roca (1792), Fabián Alarcón (1947), Matilde Hidalgo (1889), Rosalía Arteaga (1956), and Isidro Ayora (1879). After him are Ignacio de Veintemilla (1828), Antonio Flores Jijón (1833), Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy (1919), José María Urvina (1808), Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río (1893), and Luis Cordero Crespo (1833).

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Among WRITERS In Ecuador

Among writers born in Ecuador, Jorge Icaza Coronel ranks 3. Before him are Juan Montalvo (1832), and Eugenio Espejo (1747). After him are Jorge Enrique Adoum (1926).

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