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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 154,529 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. María Kodama is the 3,018th most popular writer (down from 2,669th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 167th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 150k

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  • 51.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, María Kodama ranks 3,018 out of 5,755Before her are Pascal Quignard, Adam Michnik, Judith Gautier, Sohrab Sepehri, Juan Pablo Bonet, and Howard Pyle. After her are James Rollins, Fanny Crosby, Victor Segalen, Rahman Baba, Josef Jungmann, and Gu Yanwu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, María Kodama ranks 210Before her are Wanda Jackson, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Guy Marchand, Jaime Lerner, Harri Holkeri, and Giovanni Arrighi. After her are Gaston Roelants, Klim Churyumov, Glen A. Larson, Lluís Martínez Sistach, David Mumford, and Antonio Valentín Angelillo. Among people deceased in 2023, María Kodama ranks 155Before her are Albert Azaryan, Juliette Mayniel, Peter Bieri, Guy Marchand, Deniz Baykal, and Richard Roundtree. After her are Hugh Hudson, Earl Boen, Stella Stevens, Torben Ulrich, Ian Hacking, and Walter Cunningham.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, María Kodama ranks 187 out of 1,019Before her are Eduardo Lonardi (1896), Osvaldo Pugliese (1905), Roberto Ayala (1973), Juan d'Arienzo (1900), Mario Evaristo (1908), and Jorge María Mejía (1923). After her are Néstor Combin (1939), Silvio Marzolini (1940), Pedro Pablo Ramírez (1884), Esteban Cambiasso (1980), Fernando Muslera (1986), and Horacio Pagani (1955).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, María Kodama ranks 13Before her are Alberto Manguel (1948), Joseph Kessel (1898), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Juan Gelman (1930), María Elena Walsh (1930), and Jorge Bucay (1949). After her are Leopoldo Lugones (1874), Roberto Arlt (1900), Esteban Echeverría (1805), Ricardo Piglia (1941), Juan José Saer (1937), and Hector Bianciotti (1930).