WRITER

Mohammed Dib

1920 - 2003

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Mohammed Dib (Arabic: محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author. He wrote over 30 novels, as well as numerous short stories, poems, and children's literature in the French language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohammed Dib has received more than 186,441 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Mohammed Dib is the 1,867th most popular writer (up from 1,923rd in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Algeria (down from 55th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Algerian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mohammed Dib ranks 1,867 out of 7,302. Before him are Zbigniew Herbert, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Benjamin Péret, Eva Schloss, Paul Goodman, and Ion Creangă. After him are Petr Ginz, Mikhail Zoshchenko, João de Barros, Sergei Dovlatov, Paulinus II of Aquileia, and James Ellroy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Mohammed Dib ranks 115. Before him are Tonino Guerra, Meliton Kantaria, Heinz Kessler, Ray Harryhausen, Don Taylor, and Paik Sun-yup. After him are Martine Carol, Zhou Xuan, Yevgeny Dragunov, Christopher Robin Milne, DeForest Kelley, and Saul Bass. Among people deceased in 2003, Mohammed Dib ranks 80. Before him are Valeriy Brumel, Fritz Fischer, Ramón Serrano Suñer, Guy Thys, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, and Janko Bobetko. After him are Kinji Fukasaku, David Hemmings, André Claveau, Michael Kamen, Qusay Hussein, and Sébastien Japrisot.

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In Algeria

Among people born in Algeria, Mohammed Dib ranks 58 out of 213. Before him are Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre (1810), Rabah Madjer (1958), Kateb Yacine (1929), Alphonse Juin (1888), Ahmad al-Tijani (1735), and Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi (1787). After him are Adherbal (-200), Isaac Alfasi (1013), Al-Busiri (1213), Tony Gatlif (1948), Paul Masson (1876), and Djamila Bouhired (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Algeria

Among writers born in Algeria, Mohammed Dib ranks 9. Before him are Bernard-Henri Lévy (1948), Assia Djebar (1936), Robert Merle (1908), Hélène Cixous (1937), Marcus Minucius Felix (110), and Kateb Yacine (1929). After him are Isaac Alfasi (1013), Al-Busiri (1213), Mouloud Feraoun (1913), Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari (1578), Mouloud Mammeri (1917), and Yasmina Khadra (1955).

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