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Oswald de Andrade

1890 - 1954

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José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oswald de Andrade has received more than 110,949 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Oswald de Andrade is the 3,142nd most popular writer (down from 3,085th in 2019), the 266th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 273rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 51.21

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oswald de Andrade ranks 3,142 out of 5,755. Before him are Lytton Strachey, Alexandre Herculano, Tiziano Terzani, Corippus, Hella Haasse, and Jules Vallès. After him are Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Spencer Johnson, James Russell Lowell, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, Rose Ausländer, and Abdurauf Fitrat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Oswald de Andrade ranks 118. Before him are Harry Hopkins, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Erik Heinrichs, Gösta Ekman, Walter Hasenclever, and Arthur Holmes. After him are Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Frank Morgan, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Sigurd Hoel, and Dion Fortune. Among people deceased in 1954, Oswald de Andrade ranks 74. Before him are Joachim Lemelsen, Hugo Eckener, Rudolf Beran, Friedrich Meinecke, Mikhail Prishvin, and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. After him are Omer Nishani, William Hoyt, Werner Bischof, Édouard Le Roy, Lucien Tesnière, and Émile Mâle.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Oswald de Andrade ranks 266 out of 2,067. Before him are Evaristo de Macedo (1933), Ruy Barbosa (1849), Roberto Moreno (1959), Delfim Moreira (1868), Antônio Carlos Zago (1969), and Tim (1915). After him are Francisco Aramburu (1922), Maxwell (1981), Casemiro (1992), Silva Batuta (1940), Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus (1965), and Rubem Fonseca (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Oswald de Andrade ranks 14. Before him are Augusto Boal (1931), Carlos Marighella (1911), João Guimarães Rosa (1908), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), José de Alencar (1829), and Monteiro Lobato (1882). After him are Rubem Fonseca (1925), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), Ana Maria Machado (1941), Moacyr Scliar (1937), Gonçalves Dias (1823), and Nélida Piñon (1937).

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