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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 261,286 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Nicolás Guillén is the 1,987th most popular writer (down from 1,908th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Cuba (down from 38th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Cuban Writer.

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  • 260k

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  • 55.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.60

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nicolás Guillén ranks 1,987 out of 5,755. Before him are Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Arsen Kotsoyev, Paul Morand, Tin Ujević, Feng Menglong, and Albert Memmi. After him are Harlan Coben, Bartolomeo Platina, Paulinus II of Aquileia, Vazha-Pshavela, Cornelis Tromp, and Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nicolás Guillén ranks 99. Before him are Hans von Dohnanyi, George Gaylord Simpson, Charan Singh, Albert Forster, Thelma Ritter, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki. After him are Nordahl Grieg, Alexander Mach, Darryl F. Zanuck, Jean Rey, Ryu Gwansun, and Peregrino Anselmo. Among people deceased in 1989, Nicolás Guillén ranks 92. Before him are Mihály Lantos, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Hamani Diori, Arseny Tarkovsky, Józef Cyrankiewicz, and Hassan Fathy. After him are Ondrej Nepela, Carlos Puebla, Sergei Sobolev, Franz Binder, Elisaveta Bykova, and Abbie Hoffman.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Nicolás Guillén ranks 40 out of 248. Before him are Ramón Grau (1881), Rubén González (1919), Wifredo Lam (1902), Chucho Valdés (1941), Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819), and Leo Brouwer (1939). After him are Carlos Puebla (1917), Bebo Valdés (1918), Ernesto Lecuona (1895), José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Carmen Herrera (1915), and Ana de Armas (1988).

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Among WRITERS In Cuba

Among writers born in Cuba, Nicolás Guillén ranks 5. Before him are Italo Calvino (1923), José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), and Reinaldo Arenas (1943). After him are José-Maria de Heredia (1842), Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929), José Lezama Lima (1910), Leonardo Padura Fuentes (1955), Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (1950), Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814), and José María Heredia y Heredia (1803).

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