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Mervyn Peake

1911 - 1968

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Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mervyn Peake has received more than 631,611 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mervyn Peake is the 4,255th most popular writer (down from 3,675th in 2019), the 808th most popular biography from China (down from 699th in 2019) and the 98th most popular Chinese Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mervyn Peake ranks 4,255 out of 5,755Before him are Rod Serling, Mikhail Kheraskov, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Igor Severyanin, and Léon Damas. After him are Otar Chiladze, Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg, John D. MacDonald, Dmitry Gulia, Joachim Heinrich Campe, and Rosa Montero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Mervyn Peake ranks 217Before him are Ján Cikker, Roy Eldridge, Reg Parnell, Maclyn McCarty, Max Gluckman, and Clare Hollingworth. After him are Gyula Lázár, C. L. Moore, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Kick Smit, Consalvo Sanesi, and Leslie Graham. Among people deceased in 1968, Mervyn Peake ranks 151Before him are Franchot Tone, Walter Tewksbury, Fedde Schurer, Ellen Gleditsch, René Navarre, and Hugo Haas. After him are Antonio Pietrangeli, Jess Willard, Manuel Bandeira, Hertha Sponer, Mike Spence, and Dorothy Garrod.

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In China

Among people born in China, Mervyn Peake ranks 808 out of 1,392Before him are Wen Yiduo (1899), P. C. Chang (1892), Zhang Jie (1937), Bei Dao (1949), Thomas Tien Ken-sin (1890), and Yu Rongguang (1958). After him are Toshiko Fujita (1950), Zhou Xun (1974), Guo Boxiong (1942), Liu He (1952), Wang Shu (1963), and Keye Luke (1904).

Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Mervyn Peake ranks 98Before him are Taranatha (1575), Yan Lianke (1958), Yu Dafu (1896), Wen Yiduo (1899), Zhang Jie (1937), and Bei Dao (1949). After him are Wang Guowei (1877), Dai Sijie (1954), Zhu Ziqing (1898), Wang Meng (1934), Ingrid Noll (1935), and John Hersey (1914).