WRITER

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

1939 - 2003

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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (14 June 1939–18 October 2003) was a prolific Spanish writer from Barcelona: journalist, novelist, poet, essayist, anthologue, prologist, humorist, critic and political prisoner as well as a gastronome and an FC Barcelona supporter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán has received more than 158,622 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Manuel Vázquez Montalbán is the 1,379th most popular writer (down from 1,266th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from Spain (down from 423rd in 2019) and the 48th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 59.21

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  • 30

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  • 5.16

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  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Los pájaros de Bangkok
1983
El balneario
1987
La soledad del manager
1977
Crónica sentimental de España
History, Miscellanea, Popular culture
1971
Asesinato en el Comité Central
Fiction, José Carvalho (Fictitious character), Pepe Carvalho (Fictitious character)
1981
Los mares del Sur
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ranks 1,379 out of 7,302. Before him are Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Rex Stout, Robert Wilson, Seymour Hersh, Viktor Suvorov, and Robert Browning. After him are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Mario Benedetti, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Aleksandr Kuprin, and Lucrezia Tornabuoni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ranks 89. Before him are Ruggero Deodato, Silvana Armenulić, Ion Țiriac, Fritjof Capra, Lucia Popp, and Peter Bogdanovich. After him are Jānis Lūsis, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Daniel C. Tsui, Seamus Heaney, Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, and Eugene Fama. Among people deceased in 2003, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ranks 57. Before him are Moktar Ould Daddah, Frank Sheeran, Anna Lindh, Rasul Gamzatov, Annemarie Schimmel, and Valentin Pavlov. After him are Michael P. Anderson, Georg Henrik von Wright, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Uday Hussein, Bob Hope, and László Papp.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ranks 475 out of 3,355. Before him are Diego, Prince of Asturias (1575), Joanot Martorell (1415), Hasdai ibn Shaprut (910), Isabella of Castile, Queen of Aragon (1283), Galswintha (540), and Marcus Ulpius Traianus the Elder (30). After him are Eleanor of Navarre (1426), Maslama al-Majriti (950), Dulce of Aragon (1160), Alonzo Cano (1601), Andrés Nin Pérez (1892), and Violant of Aragon (1236).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ranks 48. Before him are Mercè Rodoreda (1908), Jacint Verdaguer (1845), Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951), Javier Marías (1951), Ildefonsus (607), and Joanot Martorell (1415). After him are Rafael Alberti (1902), Don Juan Manuel (1282), Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993), Ibn al-Khatib (1313), Juan Goytisolo (1931), and Ausiàs March (1400).

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