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Maeve Binchy

1939 - 2012

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Anne Maeve Binchy Snell (28 May 1939 – 30 July 2012) was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker. Her novels were characterised by a sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of small-town life in Ireland, and surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated into 37 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maeve Binchy has received more than 751,087 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Maeve Binchy is the 4,199th most popular writer (down from 3,981st in 2019), the 177th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 174th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Irish Writer.

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  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maeve Binchy ranks 4,199 out of 5,755Before her are Hjalmar Bergman, Hart Crane, Petras Cvirka, Reiner Kunze, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, and Zhang Jie. After her are Merab Kostava, Karl von Holtei, Walter J. Ong, Eugenio Espejo, Hervé Guibert, and Etgar Keret.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Maeve Binchy ranks 316Before her are Franjo Gregurić, Robert Herbin, Wilhelmina Cooper, Joe Clark, Charles Geschke, and Ernie Davis. After her are Merab Kostava, Litokwa Tomeing, John Hopcroft, Abdelmajid Chetali, Theo Waigel, and Rustam Ibragimbekov. Among people deceased in 2012, Maeve Binchy ranks 236Before her are Levon Helm, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Émile Allais, Isuzu Yamada, Ann Curtis, and Phyllis Diller. After her are Richard D. Zanuck, Zakaria Mohieddin, Dilhan Eryurt, Ċensu Tabone, Félicien Marceau, and R. G. Armstrong.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Maeve Binchy ranks 177 out of 501Before her are Jason O'Mara (1972), Micheál Martin (1960), Paul Kane (1810), Seán O'Casey (1880), Finnian of Clonard (470), and Domhnall Gleeson (1983). After her are Richard Todd (1919), Aidan of Lindisfarne (600), Dorothea Jordan (1761), Robert Mallet (1810), William Thompson (1775), and Andrew Scott (1976).

Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Maeve Binchy ranks 27Before her are John Millington Synge (1871), Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Brendan Behan (1923), Augusta, Lady Gregory (1852), Edna O'Brien (1930), and Seán O'Casey (1880). After her are Jane Wilde (1821), Richard Steele (1672), William Trevor (1928), George Moore (1852), Elizabeth Bowen (1899), and John Boyne (1971).