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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 63,293 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi is the 4,275th most popular writer (down from 3,959th in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 192nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Mexican Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 4,275 out of 5,755Before him are André Schwarz-Bart, Francis Marrash, Olav Duun, Raymond Schwartz, Félicien Marceau, and Ferdinand Bruckner. After him are C. L. Moore, Jean Tardieu, Jules Lemaître, James Lee Burke, François Tristan l'Hermite, and Walter Kempowski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 35Before him are Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel, Ignaz von Seyfried, Henri Dutrochet, Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and Hirata Atsutane. After him are François Marie Daudin, Dániel Berzsenyi, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Charles Hamilton Smith, Amos Eaton, and George M. Bibb. Among people deceased in 1827, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 30Before him are Burgravine Louise Isabelle of Kirchberg, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Heinrich Boie, François Fournier-Sarlovèze, and Morten Thrane Brünnich. After him are Henry Salt, Countess Friederike von Schlieben, Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Clapperton, Rufus King, and Israel Pickens.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 213 out of 585Before him are Diana Bracho (1944), Manuel Rosas (1912), Sergio Pitol (1933), Juan N. Méndez (1820), Laura Zapata (1956), and Lola Beltrán (1932). After him are Carlos Torre Repetto (1904), Cuauhtémoc Blanco (1973), Arturo Márquez (1950), Miguel Barragán (1789), Arturo de Córdova (1908), and Sara Ramirez (1975).

Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi ranks 18Before him are José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Fernando del Paso (1935), Guillermo Arriaga (1958), Juan José Arreola (1921), Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928), and Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834). After him are Carlos Monsiváis (1938), Martín Luis Guzmán (1887), Carlton Cuse (1959), Javier Valdez Cárdenas (1967), Roberto Orci (1973), and Javier Sicilia (1956).