WRITER

Nicolás Guillén

1902 - 1989

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Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista (10 July 1902 – 16 July 1989) was a Cuban poet, journalist and political activist. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba. Born in Camagüey, Cuba, he studied law at the University of Havana, but abandoned a legal career and worked as both a typographer and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicolás Guillén has received more than 273,348 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Nicolás Guillén is the 1,997th most popular writer (down from 1,981st in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Cuba (up from 40th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Cuban Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Obra poética, 1920-1972
1974
Poems
1961
El son entero
1947
Sóngoro cosongo
1943
Tengo
1964
Prosa de prisa
1962

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicolás Guillén ranks 1,997 out of 7,302. Before him are Lady Randolph Churchill, Vsevolod Garshin, Cornell Woolrich, Jaume Cabré, Ji Kang, and Yehuda Amichai. After him are Countess of Ségur, Jorge Manrique, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Mohamed Choukri, Joseph Kessel, and Eugène Marin Labiche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nicolás Guillén ranks 98. Before him are Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Santos Iriarte, Jan Tschichold, Elsa Lanchester, and Abraham Wald. After him are William Walton, Samuel Goudsmit, Leopold Figl, Vladimír Clementis, Albert Forster, and Jean Bruller. Among people deceased in 1989, Nicolás Guillén ranks 91. Before him are Vasile Milea, James Bond, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Józef Cyrankiewicz, Mihály Lantos, and Giuseppe Siri. After him are Barbara W. Tuchman, Franz Binder, Sergei Sobolev, Carlos Puebla, René Moawad, and Ahmed Abdallah.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Nicolás Guillén ranks 37 out of 300. Before him are Omara Portuondo (1930), Ramón Grau (1881), Pérez Prado (1916), Tomás Estrada Palma (1835), Huber Matos (1918), and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819). After him are Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942), Ana de Armas (1988), Carlos Puebla (1917), Leo Brouwer (1939), Bebo Valdés (1918), and José-Maria de Heredia (1842).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Nicolás Guillén ranks 4. Before him are Italo Calvino (1923), José Martí (1853), and Paul Lafargue (1842). After him are José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), José Lezama Lima (1910), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), José María Heredia y Heredia (1803), and Alina Fernández (1956).

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