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José María Arguedas

1911 - 1969

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José María Arguedas Altamirano (18 January 1911 – 2 December 1969) was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José María Arguedas has received more than 164,203 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). José María Arguedas is the 2,825th most popular writer (down from 2,637th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Peru and the 8th most popular Peruvian Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 52.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, José María Arguedas ranks 2,825 out of 5,755. Before him are Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Andre Norton, Lucia Berlin, José Martínez Ruiz, José Giovanni, and Prince Henri of Orléans. After him are Edwin Arnold, S. N. Goenka, Katherine Jackson, Abraham Sutzkever, Johann Ernst Glück, and Ephraim Chambers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, José María Arguedas ranks 129. Before him are Paul Carell, Anatoly Rybakov, Grote Reber, Theodore Romzha, Barbara West, and Prince Carl Bernadotte. After him are Guy Burgess, Son Sann, John C. Woods, Hervé Bazin, Gabriel Almond, and Leah Goldberg. Among people deceased in 1969, José María Arguedas ranks 99. Before him are Abdirashid Shermarke, Warren Sturgis McCulloch, Georges Catroux, Iskander Mirza, John Wyndham, and Aleksandr Deyneka. After him are Jan Zajíc, Harry Hammond Hess, Domingo Tejera, Mark Bernes, Nicolas Grunitzky, and Volmari Iso-Hollo.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, José María Arguedas ranks 47 out of 232. Before him are Francisco Sagasti (1944), Francisco Morales Bermúdez (1921), Susana Higuchi (1950), Fernando Fernán Gómez (1921), Boris Vallejo (1941), and Claudio Pizarro (1978). After him are Valentín Paniagua (1936), Henry Ian Cusick (1967), Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro (1889), Ollanta Humala (1962), Andrés Avelino Cáceres (1836), and Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, José María Arguedas ranks 8. Before him are Isabel Allende (1942), Carlos Castaneda (1925), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), and Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535). After him are Ricardo Palma (1833), Ciro Alegría (1909), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), José Santos Chocano (1875), and Jaime Bayly (1965).

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