WRITER

Nobuko Yoshiya

1896 - 1973

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Nobuko Yoshiya (吉屋 信子, Yoshiya Nobuko, 12 January 1896 – 11 July 1973) was a Japanese novelist active in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. She was one of modern Japan's most commercially successful and prolific writers, specializing in serialized romance novels and adolescent girls' fiction, as well as being a pioneer in Japanese lesbian literature, including the Class S genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nobuko Yoshiya has received more than 135,749 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Nobuko Yoshiya is the 3,433rd most popular writer (up from 3,445th in 2019), the 969th most popular biography from Japan (down from 935th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Japanese Writer.

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  • 20

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  • 3.26

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  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 3,433 out of 7,302. Before her are Alexander Sumarokov, Bing Xin, Mikhail Prishvin, Natallia Arsiennieva, René Barjavel, and Erik Gustaf Geijer. After her are Booker T. Washington, Betty Mahmoody, Robert Kerr, Alberto Savinio, Nikola Vaptsarov, and Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 146. Before her are Aimo Lahti, Lester Germer, Evgeny Schwartz, Rafael Franco, Vasily Gordov, and Alberto Demicheli. After her are Carlos P. Garcia, Árpád Weisz, Joseph Schildkraut, Friedrich Sämisch, Manuel A. Odría, and Firaq Gorakhpuri. Among people deceased in 1973, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 144. Before her are Aleksandr Ptushko, Carmine Gallone, Eleazar López Contreras, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Jeannette Rankin, and Rafael Franco. After her are Paavo Talvela, Willy Fritsch, István Kertész, Gustaf Molander, Mikhail Isakovsky, and John Cranko.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 969 out of 6,245. Before her are Yukio Endo (1937), Tanaka Hisashige (1799), Shiro Misaki (null), Yoshiichi Watanabe (1954), Kenzo Yokoyama (1943), and Mitsuteru Yokoyama (1934). After her are Sayako Kuroda (1969), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Akashi Motojiro (1864), Ennin (793), Kazuo Koike (1936), and Abe Masahiro (1819).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Nobuko Yoshiya ranks 78. Before her are Naoya Shiga (1883), Kan Kikuchi (1888), Futabatei Shimei (1864), Ai Yazawa (1967), Itō Noe (1895), and Kafū Nagai (1879). After her are Ennin (793), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), Hiratsuka Raichō (1886), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859), and Jien (1155).

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