WRITER

Keigo Higashino

1958 - Today

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Keigo Higashino (Japanese: 東野 圭吾, Hepburn: Higashino Keigo, born February 4, 1958) is a Japanese author chiefly known for his mystery novels. He served as the 13th President of Mystery Writers of Japan from 2009 to 2013. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keigo Higashino has received more than 845,008 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Keigo Higashino is the 2,061st most popular writer (up from 2,388th in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Japan (up from 709th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Japanese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 850k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Keigo Higashino ranks 2,061 out of 7,302. Before him are Clive Barker, Vassilis Vassilikos, Mago, Catherine Breillat, Sergio Badilla Castillo, and Marcellinus Comes. After him are Kyōka Izumi, Oscar Milosz, Honoré d'Urfé, Jørgen Moe, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, and Vladimír Clementis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Keigo Higashino ranks 70. Before him are Éric Zemmour, Oscar Schmidt, Goran Hadžić, Pekka Haavisto, Giuseppe Baresi, and Søren Lerby. After him are Steve Guttenberg, Pernilla August, Lorenzo Lamas, Linda Kozlowski, Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, and Gian Piero Gasperini.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keigo Higashino ranks 625 out of 6,245. Before him are Zenkō Suzuki (1911), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), Hantaro Nagaoka (1865), Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), and Yuriko Koike (1952). After him are Kyōka Izumi (1873), Nobuyuki Kato (1920), Tadao Takayama (1904), Kon Ichikawa (1915), Koji Miyata (1923), and Chiang Wei-kuo (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Keigo Higashino ranks 41. Before him are Minamoto no Sanetomo (1192), Masaoka Shiki (1867), Doppo Kunikida (1871), Eiji Tsuburaya (1901), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), and Atsushi Nakajima (1909). After him are Kyōka Izumi (1873), Yoshida Kenkō (1283), Katsu Kaishū (1823), Saigyō (1118), Fujiwara no Teika (1162), and Ueda Akinari (1734).

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