WRITER

María Kodama

1937 - 2023

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María Kodama Schweizer (10 March 1937 – 26 March 2023) was an Argentine writer and translator. The widow of author Jorge Luis Borges, she was the sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in a will written in 1979, when she was his literary secretary, and bequeathed to her his whole estate in 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of María Kodama has received more than 167,322 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). María Kodama is the 2,463rd most popular writer (up from 3,007th in 2019), the 164th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 187th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, María Kodama ranks 2,463 out of 7,302. Before her are Parthenius of Nicaea, Guan Hanqing, Gottschalk of Orbais, Winston Groom, William Beckford, and Alois Musil. After her are Annie Proulx, Rolf Hochhuth, Ariwara no Narihira, Dick Francis, Christopher Priest, and Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, María Kodama ranks 171. Before her are Karol J. Bobko, Luciana Paluzzi, Viktor Mamatov, Foday Sankoh, Ange-Félix Patassé, and Suzanne Pleshette. After her are Erich Ribbeck, Rudi Altig, Nur Hassan Hussein, Igor Volk, Gaston Roelants, and Aleksandr Demyanenko. Among people deceased in 2023, María Kodama ranks 217. Before her are Juraj Jakubisko, Telesphore Toppo, Klaus Teuber, Mary L. Cleave, Ahmad Jamal, and Frances Sternhagen. After her are Aleksandar Matanović, Ingrid Haebler, Terry Venables, Romualdo Arppi Filho, Ita Ever, and Gleb Panfilov.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, María Kodama ranks 164 out of 1,154. Before her are Oscar Bonavena (1942), María Elena Walsh (1930), José Hernández (1834), Roberto Ayala (1973), Raúl Alberto Lastiri (1915), and Edelmiro Julián Farrell (1887). After her are Agustín Pedro Justo (1876), Roberto Cherro (1907), Norma Aleandro (1936), Linda Cristal (1934), Juan Hohberg (1926), and Emilio Eduardo Massera (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, María Kodama ranks 12. Before her are Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), and María Elena Walsh (1930). After her are Jorge Bucay (1949), Juan Gelman (1930), Ricardo Piglia (1941), Roberto Arlt (1900), Leopoldo Lugones (1874), and Juan José Saer (1937).

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