WRITER

Julio Cortázar

1914 - 1984

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Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; Latin American Spanish: [ˈxuljo koɾˈtasaɾ] ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered to be one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose, and short stories as well as the author of many groundbreaking novels, a prolific author who inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking classical molds. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julio Cortázar has received more than 1,384,582 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Julio Cortázar is the 378th most popular writer (up from 414th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Belgium (up from 59th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Writer.

Julio Cortázar is most famous for his novel, Hopscotch.

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  • 68

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  • 5.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julio Cortázar ranks 378 out of 7,302. Before him are Tulsidas, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Grazia Deledda, Enheduanna, Theocritus, and Arthur de Gobineau. After him are Georges Bataille, Sergei Yesenin, Jean Genet, Cornelius Nepos, Elena Ferrante, and Frans Eemil Sillanpää.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Julio Cortázar ranks 11. Before him are Thor Heyerdahl, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, and Octavio Paz. After him are Alec Guinness, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Richard Widmark, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Bohumil Hrabal, and Abd al-Karim Qasim. Among people deceased in 1984, Julio Cortázar ranks 10. Before him are Indira Gandhi, Paul Dirac, François Truffaut, Mikhail Sholokhov, Johnny Weissmuller, and Mohamed Naguib. After him are Martin Niemöller, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Ed Gein, Ray Kroc, and Stanislaw Ulam.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Julio Cortázar ranks 51 out of 1,190. Before him are Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Henri La Fontaine (1854), Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568), Jules Bordet (1870), Simon Stevin (1548), and Margaret of Parma (1522). After him are Isabella of Austria (1501), Adolphe Sax (1814), Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864), Pepin of Landen (585), Django Reinhardt (1910), and Jacob Jordaens (1593).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Julio Cortázar ranks 4. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck (1862), Georges Simenon (1903), and Marguerite Yourcenar (1903). After him are Émile Verhaeren (1855), Marguerite Porete (1250), Pierre Louÿs (1870), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Hugo Claus (1929).

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