WRITER

José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi

1776 - 1827

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José Joaquín Eugenio Fernández de Lizardi Gutiérrez (November 15, 1776 – June 21, 1827), Mexican writer and political journalist, best known as the author of El Periquillo Sarniento (1816), translated as The Mangy Parrot in English, reputed to be the first novel written in Latin America. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi has received more than 67,722 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi is the 4,843rd most popular writer (down from 4,262nd in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 213th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Mexican Writer.

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  • 68k

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  • 48.03

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

El pensador mexicano
1940
Un manuscrito inédito de poesías de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
Criticism and interpretation, Mexican Manuscripts, Manuscripts
2003
The mangy parrot, abridged
2005
Don Catrín de la Fachenda
Authors, Mexican, Criticism and interpretation, Mexican Authors
1944
El Periquillo Sarniento
Spanish language, Readers
1830
La Quijotita y su prima
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 4,843 out of 7,302. Before him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Zhu Ziqing, Leonti Mroveli, Émile Souvestre, Mary Stewart, and Vittorio Messori. After him are Myrtis of Anthedon, Corín Tellado, Gulnazar Keldi, Jim Harrison, Jan Kjærstad, and Joe R. Lansdale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 37. Before him are Ignaz von Seyfried, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Hirata Atsutane, Henri Dutrochet, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and François Marie Daudin. After him are Sydney, Lady Morgan, Dániel Berzsenyi, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Amos Eaton, Charles Hamilton Smith, and George M. Bibb. Among people deceased in 1827, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 33. Before him are Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Henry Salt, János Bihari, and François Fournier-Sarlovèze. After him are Hugh Clapperton, Charles Willson Peale, Rufus King, and Israel Pickens.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 244 out of 729. Before him are Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), Chimalpahin (1579), Manuel Rosas (1912), Juan Carreño (1909), Lupita Tovar (1910), and Angélica Rivera (1969). After him are Paulina Rubio (1971), Martín Carrera (1806), María Grever (1885), Daniela Romo (1959), Lucero (1969), and Carlos Torre Repetto (1904).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 17. Before him are Amado Nervo (1870), Cesar Millan (1969), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Guillermo Arriaga (1958), Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928), and Juan José Arreola (1921). After him are Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834), Martín Luis Guzmán (1887), Carlos Monsiváis (1938), Sabina Berman (1955), Carlton Cuse (1959), and Javier Sicilia (1956).

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