WRITER

Juan José Saer

1937 - 2005

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Juan José Saer (28 June 1937 – 11 June 2005) was a major Argentine writer. For his novel The Event (La ocasión), he won the Premio Nadal in 1987. In 1990, he shared the Silver Condor Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Las veredas de Saturno. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan José Saer has received more than 66,546 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Juan José Saer is the 3,603rd most popular writer (up from 3,998th in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 294th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

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  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juan José Saer ranks 3,603 out of 7,302Before him are Alfréd Wetzler, Teofilo Folengo, David Bergelson, Mikhail Isakovsky, James Tiptree Jr., and Elin Pelin. After him are Faltonia Betitia Proba, Gysbert Japiks, Marcel Prévost, Konstantin Fedin, Luciano De Crescenzo, and Marc Levy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Juan José Saer ranks 259Before him are Jaime Lerner, Rupiah Banda, Renato Longo, Lorraine Gary, John Phillip Law, and Vittorio Adorni. After him are Marlene Schmidt, Givi Chokheli, Boris Yegorov, Ivo Daneu, Francisco Pinto Balsemão, and Zdeněk Zikán. Among people deceased in 2005, Juan José Saer ranks 161Before him are André Waterkeyn, Tetyana Yablonska, Shirley Horn, Pál Losonczi, Link Wray, and Françoise d'Eaubonne. After him are Vizma Belševica, Jesús Rafael Soto, John Spencer, Mustai Karim, Erik Balling, and Johnny Haynes.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Juan José Saer ranks 275 out of 1,154Before him are Juan d'Arienzo (1900), Jorge Olguín (1952), José Evaristo Uriburu (1831), Manuel Seoane (1902), Luis Alberto Spinetta (1950), and Hilda Bernard (1920). After him are Omar Larrosa (1947), José Eulogio Gárate (1944), Carlos Pachamé (1944), Roberto Sensini (1966), Ramón Puerta (1951), and Horacio Elizondo (1963).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Juan José Saer ranks 18Before him are María Kodama (1937), Jorge Bucay (1949), Juan Gelman (1930), Ricardo Piglia (1941), Roberto Arlt (1900), and Leopoldo Lugones (1874). After him are César Aira (1949), Hector Bianciotti (1930), Esteban Echeverría (1805), Ariel Dorfman (1942), Olga Orozco (1920), and Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934).