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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, naturalised French novelist, short story writer, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julio Cortázar has received more than 1,277,683 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia. Julio Cortázar is the 415th most popular writer (up from 416th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 53rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Belgian Writer.

Julio Cortázar is most famous for his novel, Hopscotch.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 67.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Julio Cortázar ranks 415 out of 5,755. Before him are Gertrude Stein, Saint-John Perse, Thomas Bernhard, Meera, Lactantius, and Alphonse de Lamartine. After him are Tibullus, Karl Barth, Joseph Brodsky, Zecharia Sitchin, George Eliot, and Elena Ferrante.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Julio Cortázar ranks 14. Before him are Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Aribert Heim, Alec Guinness, and Romain Gary. After him are Bohumil Hrabal, Octavio Paz, William S. Burroughs, Richard Widmark, Lída Baarová, and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Among people deceased in 1984, Julio Cortázar ranks 14. Before him are Martin Niemöller, Ray Kroc, Mikhail Sholokhov, Truman Capote, Ed Gein, and Alfred Kastler. After him are Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, Stanley Milgram, Dmitry Ustinov, Anna Anderson, and Karl Wolff.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Julio Cortázar ranks 59 out of 1,019. Before him are Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), Isabella of Austria (1501), Léon Degrelle (1906), Django Reinhardt (1910), Hugo van der Goes (1440), and Pepin of Landen (585). After him are Agnès Varda (1928), Jacob Jordaens (1593), John of Gaunt (1340), James Ensor (1860), Philippe of Belgium (1960), and Johannes Ockeghem (1410).

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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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