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Keri Hulme

1947 - 2021

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Keri Ann Ruhi Hulme (9 March 1947 – 27 December 2021) was a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer. She also wrote under the pen name Kai Tainui. Her novel The Bone People won the Booker Prize in 1985; she was the first New Zealander to win the award, and also the first writer to win the prize for a debut novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keri Hulme has received more than 199,860 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Keri Hulme is the 4,448th most popular writer (up from 5,230th in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from New Zealand (up from 92nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular New Zealander Writer.

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  • 200k

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  • 47.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Keri Hulme ranks 4,448 out of 5,755. Before her are Roberto Saviano, Zainab Biisheva, Zhu Ziqing, Johann Jakob Breitinger, Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, and Irving Wallace. After her are Christopher Priest, Hilde Domin, Marilyn French, René Depestre, Yann Martel, and Zaharia Stancu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Keri Hulme ranks 424. Before her are Rudolf Scharping, Jan T. Gross, Alexei Ulanov, Dave Davies, Đurđica Bjedov, and Franco Trappoli. After her are Lupita Ferrer, Klaus Dibiasi, Yuri Matiyasevich, Abraham Laboriel, Chung Un-chan, and Pete Ham. Among people deceased in 2021, Keri Hulme ranks 437. Before her are Milan Bandić, Petr Kellner, Clarence Williams III, Patrick Juvet, Igor Nikulin, and Murray Walker. After her are Christa Stubnick, Joseph Benz, Cara Williams, Monte Hellman, William E. Thornton, and Ryszard Szurkowski.

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In New Zealand

Among people born in New Zealand, Keri Hulme ranks 51 out of 248. Before her are Howden Ganley (1941), Raymond Firth (1901), Jean Batten (1909), Keith Urban (1967), Jonah Lomu (1975), and Ronald Syme (1903). After her are Lee Tamahori (1950), Kevin Smith (1963), Martin Henderson (1974), Fran Walsh (1959), John Nicholson (1941), and Melanie Lynskey (1977).

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Among WRITERS In New Zealand

Among writers born in New Zealand, Keri Hulme ranks 5. Before her are Katherine Mansfield (1888), Ngaio Marsh (1895), Richard Curtis (1956), and Janet Frame (1924). After her are Margaret Mahy (1936), Hugh Walpole (1884), Ruth Park (1917), and Philippa Boyens (2000).

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