WRITER

Juan José Saer

1937 - 2005

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Juan José Saer (Serodino, Santa Fe, Argentina, June 28, 1937 – Paris, France, June 11, 2005) was an Argentine writer, considered one of the most important in Latin American literature and in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. He is considered the most important writer of Argentina after Jorge Luis Borges (according to Martin Kohan) and the best Argentine writer of the second half of the 20th century (according to Beatriz Sarlo). Four of his novels - La Pesquisa, El Entenado, La Grande and Glosa - appear on various lists made by Latin American and Spanish writers and critics of the best 100 books in the Spanish language of the last 25 years For his novel La Ocasión he won the Nadal Prize in 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan José Saer has received more than 63,106 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Juan José Saer is the 3,602nd 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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  • 63k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

El entenado
2003
El arte de narrar
1977
Responso
1998
L'occasion
1996
La mayor
1976
La Pesquisa
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Juan José Saer ranks 3,602 out of 7,302. Before 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 259. Before 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 161. Before 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 1,154. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Juan José Saer ranks 18. Before 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).

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