WRITER

Laura Esquivel

1950 - Today

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Laura Beatriz Esquivel Valdés (born 30 September 1950) is a Mexican novelist, screenwriter and politician, who served in the Chamber of Deputies for the Morena Party from 2015 to 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laura Esquivel has received more than 417,107 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Laura Esquivel is the 2,393rd most popular writer (down from 2,317th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 105th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Mexican Writer.

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  • 420k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laura Esquivel ranks 2,393 out of 7,302Before her are Nikolay Kostomarov, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Émile Augier, André Frossard, Charles Berlitz, and Akaki Tsereteli. After her are S. N. Goenka, Izumi Shikibu, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Per Petterson, and Jeremias Gotthelf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Laura Esquivel ranks 139Before her are Mirko Cvetković, Martine Aubry, Dudu Georgescu, Winfried Schäfer, Elya Baskin, and Natalie Cole. After her are John Hughes, Kozo Arai, Richard Chase, Rajinikanth, Eric Maskin, and Paul Watson.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Laura Esquivel ranks 111 out of 729Before her are Joaquin Murrieta (1829), Rafael Caro Quintero (1952), Anastasio Bustamante (1780), Jorge Negrete (1910), Jacqueline Andere (1938), and Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (1823). After her are Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1889), Tlacaelel (1397), Armando Manzanero (1935), Isabel Moctezuma (1509), Francisco Jara (1941), and Emilio Portes Gil (1890).

Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Laura Esquivel ranks 6Before her are Octavio Paz (1914), Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Juan Rulfo (1917), and Fernando del Paso (1935). After her are Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Rosario Castellanos (1925), Mariano Azuela (1873), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), Amado Nervo (1870), and Cesar Millan (1969).