WRITER

Machado de Assis

1839 - 1908

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature. In 1897, he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Machado de Assis has received more than 593,390 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Machado de Assis is the 1,008th most popular writer (down from 919th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 55th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Brazilian Writer.

Machado de Assis is most famous for his novel, "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas."

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  • 590k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Machado de Assis ranks 1,008 out of 7,302. Before him are Bertran de Born, Mori Ōgai, Joseph Murphy, Ali Shariati, Jean Giraudoux, and Vladimir Bartol. After him are Herodian, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Noah Gordon, and William Gibson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Machado de Assis ranks 15. Before him are Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, Josephine Cochrane, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Emil Škoda, and August Kundt. After him are Princess Cecilie of Baden, Nikolay Bobrikov, Ali Rıza Efendi, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Josef Rheinberger, and Yoshitoshi. Among people deceased in 1908, Machado de Assis ranks 15. Before him are Pablo de Sarasate, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Demetrius Vikelas, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal, and Victorien Sardou. After him are Butch Cassidy, Radoje Domanović, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Wilhelm Busch, Mikhail Chigorin, and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Machado de Assis ranks 63 out of 2,236. Before him are Ademir de Menezes (1922), Roberto Carlos (1941), Gilberto Gil (1942), Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior (1943), Deodoro da Fonseca (1827), and Vinicius de Moraes (1913). After him are Hebe Camargo (1929), Pepe (1935), Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (1897), Zizinho (1921), Careca (1960), and João Goulart (1918).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Machado de Assis ranks 4. Before him are Paulo Coelho (1947), Jorge Amado (1912), and Vinicius de Moraes (1913). After him are Reinaldo Arenas (1943), Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Augusto Boal (1931), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902).

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