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Lygia Fagundes Telles

Brazilian novelist and short-story writer

1923 - 2022

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Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Lygia Fagundes Telles is the 4,055th most popular writer (up from 4,323rd in 2024), the 432nd most popular biography from Brazil (up from 462nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 4,055 out of 7,302Before her are Onomacritus, Leif G. W. Persson, Jurek Becker, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Zsigmond Móricz, and Gary Chapman. After her are Emmy Hennings, Andrejs Pumpurs, Bret Harte, Bohuslav Balbín, Emma Lazarus, and Marcel Jouhandeau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 249Before her are Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Charlie Mariano, Mikhail Yegorov, Inger Jacobsen, Og Mandino, and Karl-Heinz Metzner. After her are Paul Xuereb, James Arness, Ahti Karjalainen, Bror Mellberg, Vic Seixas, and Murray Hamilton. Among people deceased in 2022, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 302Before her are Henk Groot, Steinar Amundsen, Joseph Raz, Chaim Kanievsky, Pharoah Sanders, and Hugo Fernández. After her are Carmela Corren, Vira Vovk, Michael Sela, Masato Kudo, Anatoly Alyabyev, and Alan White.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 432 out of NaNBefore her are José de Anchieta Fontana (1940), Lisa Ono (1962), Sérgio da Rocha (1959), Edu (1949), Roberto de Assis Moreira (1971), and Jaime Lerner (1937). After her are Waldir Peres (1951), Jurandir de Freitas (1940), Silas Pereira (1965), José Faria (1933), José Lázaro Robles (1924), and Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues (1892).

Among Writers In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Lygia Fagundes Telles ranks 19Before her are José de Alencar (1829), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), Monteiro Lobato (1882), Oswald de Andrade (1890), Rubem Fonseca (1925), and Lui Morais (1961). After her are Ana Maria Machado (1941), Rachel de Queiroz (1910), Moacyr Scliar (1937), Gonçalves Dias (1823), Graciliano Ramos (1892), and Nélida Piñon (1937).

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