WRITER

Meir Shalev

1948 - 2023

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Meir Shalev (Hebrew: מאיר שלו; 29 July 1948 – 11 April 2023) was an Israeli writer and newspaper columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meir Shalev has received more than 114,273 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Meir Shalev is the 2,758th most popular writer (up from 3,943rd in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from Israel (up from 226th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Yonah ṿe-naʻar
Fiction, Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949, Tour guides (Persons)
2006
Esau
1994
Roman Rusi
Emigration and immigration, History, Russian Jews
1988
Two she-bears
Suicide, Fiction
In the year 1930, three farmers committed suicide here . . . but contrary to the chronicles of our committee and the conclusions of the British policeman, the people of the moshava knew that only two of the suicides had actually taken their own lives, whereas the third suicide had been murdered." This is the contention of Ruta Tavori, a high school teacher and independent thinker in this small farming community, writing seventy years later about that murder and about two charismatic men she loves and is trying to forgive--her grandfather and her husband--and her son, whom she mourns and misses.
2016
Que la terre se souvienne
1990
ha-Yeled Ḥayim ṿeha-mifletset mi-Yerushalayim
Juvenile fiction, Monsters
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Meir Shalev ranks 2,758 out of 7,302. Before him are Michele Ruggieri, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Israel Zolli, Thomas Gray, Harold Robbins, and Carl Bernstein. After him are Antal Szerb, Thomas Kyd, Petter Dass, Samuel Smiles, Alice Schwarzer, and John Zerzan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Meir Shalev ranks 225. Before him are Manuel Clemente, Peter James, Muhammad Zaidan, Tony Judt, Art Spiegelman, and Rick Parfitt. After him are Kitten Natividad, Bernhard Lehmann, Robert Holdstock, Steve Winwood, Sam Hui, and Barbara Hendricks. Among people deceased in 2023, Meir Shalev ranks 245. Before him are Sherif Ismail, Vera Vasilyeva, Maryanne Trump Barry, Paul de Senneville, and Nadja Tiller. After him are Jim Brown, Menahem Pressler, Bob Barker, Endel Tulving, C. R. Rao, Ilya Kabakov, and Elmar Wepper.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Meir Shalev ranks 212 out of 466. Before him are Alice of Champagne (1196), Arnon Milchan (1944), Yuval Ne'eman (1925), Israel Katz (1955), John of Patmos (50), and Ralph Bakshi (1938). After him are Naomi Shemer (1930), Esther Hayut (1953), Gideon Levy (1953), Yvan Attal (1965), Nahum Stelmach (1936), and Hiam Abbass (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Meir Shalev ranks 11. Before him are Ghassan Kanafani (1936), David Grossman (1954), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), and Justus of Tiberias (35). After him are Gideon Levy (1953), Etgar Keret (1967), Emile Habibi (1922), Amira Hass (1956), Zeruya Shalev (1959), and Tony Cliff (1917).

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