WRITER

José Eduardo Agualusa

1960 - Today

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José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha (born December 13, 1960) is an Angolan journalist and writer of Portuguese and Brazilian descent. He studied agronomy and silviculture in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently he resides in the Island of Mozambique, working as a writer and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Eduardo Agualusa has received more than 118,699 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). José Eduardo Agualusa is the 4,939th most popular writer (up from 5,059th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Angola (down from 17th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Angolan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Coração dos bosques
1991
A substância do amor e outras crónicas
2000
Nação crioula
1997
A conjura
1989
Mulheres do meu pai
Social conditions, Fiction
2008
The Book of Chameleons
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José Eduardo Agualusa ranks 4,939 out of 7,302. Before him are Piers Anthony, Eyvindr skáldaspillir, Sahir Ludhianvi, Albert Londres, Anna Maria Lenngren, and Francis Bebey. After him are Greg Egan, Régine Deforges, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Iakob Tsurtaveli, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, and Amelia Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, José Eduardo Agualusa ranks 257. Before him are Micheál Martin, Víctor Fernández, Eike Immel, Eric Martin, Jonathan Larson, and Callum Keith Rennie. After him are Nobuyo Fujishiro, Peter F. Hamilton, Craig Sheffer, Azim Isabekov, Alain Geiger, and Joe Ranft.

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In Angola

Among people born in Angola, José Eduardo Agualusa ranks 18 out of 67. Before him are Pepetela (1941), Rui Jordão (1952), Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928), Lúcio Lara (1929), Eduardo Camavinga (2002), and José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo (1917). After him are Jorge Mendonça (1938), José Morais (1965), Fernando José de França Dias Van-Dúnem (1934), Paulo Kassoma (1951), Eduardo Nascimento (1943), and Lopo do Nascimento (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Angola

Among writers born in Angola, José Eduardo Agualusa ranks 3. Before him are Pepetela (1941), and Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928).

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