WRITER

Oliverio Girondo

1891 - 1967

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Oliverio Girondo (August 17, 1891 – January 24, 1967) was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliverio Girondo has received more than 53,607 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Oliverio Girondo is the 5,630th most popular writer (down from 4,939th in 2019), the 535th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 429th in 2019) and the 28th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oliverio Girondo ranks 5,630 out of 7,302Before him are John Gardner, Richard D. Ryder, Federico De Roberto, Elvira Lindo, Henry van Dyke Jr., and Pascal Lainé. After him are Christoph Hein, Juana Manuela Gorriti, Anna Louisa Karsch, André Dhôtel, Wolfgang Hohlbein, and Stephen Spender.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Oliverio Girondo ranks 246Before him are Eva Kotchever, Francis Pegahmagabow, Ernest Leonard Johnson, Boris Lavrenyov, Hendrik Adamson, and Birbal Sahni. After him are Mamie Smith, Erik Lindahl, Jean Jacoby, Bernhard Zondek, Béla von Kehrling, and John A. Costello. Among people deceased in 1967, Oliverio Girondo ranks 238Before him are J. B. Lenoir, Max Taut, Henry J. Kaiser, Henri Guérin, Billy Strayhorn, and Maximos IV Sayegh. After him are Herman Teirlinck, Pinto Colvig, Jean Alexandre Barré, Joe Orton, Joseph Perotaux, and Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Oliverio Girondo ranks 535 out of 1,154Before him are Roberto Mouzo (1953), Alberto Crespo (1920), Enrique Wolff (1949), Néstor Gorosito (1964), Miguel Ángel Guerra (1953), and Carlos Squeo (1948). After him are Gustavo Dezotti (1964), Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818), Marcelo Trobbiani (1955), Amado Azar (1913), Ángel Correa (1995), and Horacio Accavallo (1934).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Oliverio Girondo ranks 28Before him are Ariel Dorfman (1942), Olga Orozco (1920), Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934), Rodolfo Walsh (1927), Ricardo Güiraldes (1886), and Angélica Gorodischer (1928). After him are Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818), Luisa Valenzuela (1938), Manuel Rojas (1896), Delfina Bunge (1881), Guillermo Martínez (1962), and Carlos Salem (1959).