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WRITER

Kōbō Abe

1924 - 1993

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Kōbō Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kōbō), pen name of Kimifusa Abe (安部 公房, Abe Kimifusa, March 7, 1924 – January 22, 1993), was a Japanese writer, playwright, musician, photographer, and inventor. He is best known for his 1962 novel The Woman in the Dunes that was made into an award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kōbō Abe has received more than 583,353 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Kōbō Abe is the 731st most popular writer (down from 702nd in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Japan (down from 87th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Japanese Writer.

Kōbō Abe is most famous for his novel "The Woman in the Dunes" which is about a man who becomes trapped in a sandpit with a woman and must dig away at the sand to survive.

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  • 580k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kōbō Abe ranks 731 out of 5,755. Before him are Julius Fučík, Alexander Griboyedov, Epicharmus of Kos, A. J. Cronin, Marie Mancini, and Alexander Litvinenko. After him are Mary Higgins Clark, Aubrey Beardsley, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Émile Verhaeren, Christa Wolf, and Natalia Ginzburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Kōbō Abe ranks 34. Before him are Jovanka Broz, Ezer Weizman, Lee Marvin, Robert Solow, Jin Yong, and Eva Marie Saint. After him are Lys Assia, Amílcar Cabral, Dmitry Yazov, Roger Guillemin, Francisco Macías Nguema, and Christopher Tolkien. Among people deceased in 1993, Kōbō Abe ranks 23. Before him are Hans Jonas, Brandon Lee, Polykarp Kusch, Bobby Moore, W. Edwards Deming, and Dizzy Gillespie. After him are Lillian Gish, Bill Bixby, Wolfgang Paul, Albert Sabin, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Cantinflas.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kōbō Abe ranks 110 out of 6,048. Before him are Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Sakamoto Ryōma (1836), Emperor Go-Kōmyō (1633), Emperor Kōshō (-505), Emperor Higashiyama (1675), and Empress Meishō (1624). After him are Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Emperor Go-Sai (1638), Kōnosuke Matsushita (1894), Paulo Miki (1564), Emperor Reigen (1654), and Akio Morita (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Kōbō Abe ranks 15. Before him are Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Masaru Emoto (1943), and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886). After him are Sugawara no Michizane (845), Edogawa Ranpo (1894), Zeami Motokiyo (1363), Shoko Asahara (1955), D. T. Suzuki (1870), and Mori Ōgai (1862).

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