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Kim Thúy

1968 - Today

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Kim Thúy Ly Thanh, CM CQ (born 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-born Canadian writer. Kim Thúy was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kim Thúy has received more than 211,441 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kim Thúy is the 6,657th most popular writer (down from 5,859th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 102nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Vietnamese Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kim Thúy ranks 6,657 out of 7,302. Before her are Shirley Ann Grau, Tom Egeland, Catherine Cookson, Rick Falkvinge, Deborah Feldman, and Jessie Redmon Fauset. After her are Kristina Ohlsson, George Clayton Johnson, Marie Darrieussecq, Greil Marcus, Édouard Louis, and Joel Surnow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Kim Thúy ranks 524. Before her are Daphne Koller, Giovanni Stroppa, Peter Bondra, Lisa Chappell, Evridiki, and Charlotte Valandrey. After her are Jennifer Lynch, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Samuel Matete, Svenja Schulze, Attila Repka, and Armand de Las Cuevas.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Kim Thúy ranks 116 out of 136. Before her are Lê Công Vinh (1985), Thuy Trang (1973), Hoàng Xuân Vinh (1974), Dustin Nguyen (1962), Ngô Thanh Vân (1979), and Cung Le (1972). After her are Mỹ Tâm (1981), Scotty Nguyen (1962), Nguyễn Công Phượng (1995), Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971), Trần Hiếu Ngân (1974), and Hiep Thi Le (1971).

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Among WRITERS In Vietnam

Among writers born in Vietnam, Kim Thúy ranks 7. Before her are Marguerite Duras (1914), Phan Bội Châu (1867), Nguyễn Du (1765), Hồ Xuân Hương (1772), Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963), and Dương Thu Hương (1947). After her are Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971).

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