WRITER

Michael Morpurgo

1943 - Today

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Sir Michael Andrew Bridge Morpurgo (né Bridge; 5 October 1943) is an English book author, poet, playwright, and librettist who is known best for children's novels such as War Horse (1982). His work is noted for its "magical storytelling", for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such as the Cornish coast or World War I. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Morpurgo has received more than 1,647,384 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Michael Morpurgo is the 4,014th most popular writer (up from 4,031st in 2019), the 2,881st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,976th in 2019) and the 325th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Cool!
Juvenile literature, Traffic accident victims
2002
1985
War Horse
Crap, Fiction, Horses
In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches.
1982
King of the Cloud Forests
Yeti, Fiction, Adventure and adventurers
After being rescued in the mountains of Tibet by a near-human tribe who revere him as a god, Ashley must choose between returning to the violence of the village he fled and the tests of courage that await him as the tribe's god.
1987
Conker
Chestnut, Dogs, Juvenile fiction
1987
1993

Page views of Michael Morpurgos by language

Over the past year Michael Morpurgo has had the most page views in the with 193,066 views, followed by French (32,273), and Simple English (5,495). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (540.74%), Spanish (161.28%), and Welsh (48.69%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michael Morpurgo ranks 4,014 out of 7,302. Before him are Edith Bruck, Karin Michaëlis, Melissa Mathison, Lloyd Alexander, Amir Hamzah, and Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau. After him are Kim Sowol, Diego Durán, Otto Ludwig, Ricardo Palma, Lajos Bíró, and Ludvík Vaculík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Michael Morpurgo ranks 372. Before him are Crescenzio Sepe, Kenichi Ohmae, Ling Liong Sik, Héctor Chumpitaz, Brian Ferneyhough, and Leonid Ivashov. After him are Boediono, John Draper, Ilaiyaraaja, Jon Postel, Robert Axelrod, and Tim Schenken.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Morpurgo ranks 2,881 out of 8,785. Before him are Joseph Morgan (1981), Sienna Guillory (1975), Stella McCartney (1971), Alfred Tysoe (1874), Jonathan Bailey (1988), and Charles Cameron (1746). After him are Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), Tim Pigott-Smith (1946), Anita Brookner (1928), Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney (1075), and Eduardo Paolozzi (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Michael Morpurgo ranks 325. Before him are James Allen (1864), Joan Aiken (1924), John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647), Alexander Neckam (1157), Mary Norton (1903), and Eleanor Hibbert (1906). After him are Anita Brookner (1928), Fay Weldon (1931), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Eric Frank Russell (1905), Peter Cheyney (1896), and Jackie Collins (1937).

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