WRITER

Juan José Arreola

1921 - 2001

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Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer, academic, and actor. He is considered Mexico's premier experimental short story writer of the 20th century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he used elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan José Arreola has received more than 95,729 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Juan José Arreola is the 4,670th most popular writer (down from 4,103rd in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Mexico (down from 199th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Mexican Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 96k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Bestiario
1972
La feria
Spanish fiction
1963
Confabulario
1952
Confabulario total, 1941-1961
1961
Palindroma
1974
Memoria y olvido
Mexican Authors, Biography, Autores mexicanos
1996
Bestiario
Essays, Bestiarios, Bestiaries
1972
Palindroma
1974
La feria
1964
La feria
Spanish fiction
1963
Confabulario
Cuentos mexicanos, Mexican Short stories
2002
Confabulario
Spanish literature, Spanish language materials
1952
Confabulario
Cuentos mexicanos, Mexican Short stories
2002
Palindroma
1974
Confabulario
Spanish literature, Spanish language materials
1952
La feria
Spanish fiction
1963
Bestiario
Essays, Bestiarios, Bestiaries
1972
La feria
1964

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juan José Arreola ranks 4,670 out of 7,302. Before him are Vishnu Sharma, Monica Lovinescu, Zakaria Tamer, Taylor Caldwell, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, and H. C. Artmann. After him are Stephen Baxter, Elias Khoury, Michalina Wisłocka, Peter Ackroyd, Paweł Huelle, and Nikolai Tikhonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Juan José Arreola ranks 291. Before him are Michel Boisrond, Carlo Parola, Eusebio Castigliano, Nadezhda Popova, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, and H. C. Artmann. After him are Michalina Wisłocka, Ted Schroeder, Francis Blanche, Heinrich Schmid, Sotiria Bellou, and Joseph Iléo. Among people deceased in 2001, Juan José Arreola ranks 216. Before him are Joe Fagan, Sivaji Ganesan, Lewis Arquette, Ranko Marinković, Ettore Puricelli, and Eudora Welty. After him are Martha Mödl, Cornelius Warmerdam, Kateryna Yushchenko, Jane Greer, Luise Krüger, and Ibrahim Shams.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Juan José Arreola ranks 232 out of 729. Before him are Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928), Lupita Nyong'o (1983), Lucas Alamán (1792), Lola Beltrán (1932), Alfonso Arau (1932), and Arturo de Córdova (1908). After him are Leticia Calderón (1968), Pedro María de Anaya (1795), Marco Antonio Solís (1959), Rómulo Díaz de la Vega (1800), Roque González Garza (1885), and Francisco Robles Ortega (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Juan José Arreola ranks 16. Before him are José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Amado Nervo (1870), Cesar Millan (1969), Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Guillermo Arriaga (1958), and Jorge Ibargüengoitia (1928). After him are José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776), Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1834), Martín Luis Guzmán (1887), Carlos Monsiváis (1938), Sabina Berman (1955), and Carlton Cuse (1959).

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