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Penelope Delta

1874 - 1941

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Penelope Delta (Greek: Πηνελόπη Δέλτα; 24 April 1874 – 2 May 1941) was a Greek author. She is widely celebrated for her contributions to the field of children's literature. Her historical novels have been widely read and have influenced popular modern Greek perceptions of national identity and history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Penelope Delta has received more than 103,034 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Penelope Delta is the 4,255th most popular writer (down from 3,989th in 2019), the 473rd most popular biography from Egypt (down from 436th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Anamnēseis, 1899
Authors, Greek (Modern), Biography
1990
Eleutherios K. Venizelos
Biography, Politics and government, Prime ministers
1978
Voyou (édition bilingue grec-français)
2002
Gia tēn patrida
1955
In the Heroic Age of Basil II
2006
Prōtes enthymēseis
Biography, Intellectual life, Intellectuals
1981

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Penelope Delta ranks 4,255 out of 7,302. Before her are Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, Carmen de Burgos, Bel Kaufman, Hwang Sok-yong, Anthony Hope, and Titsian Tabidze. After her are James Blish, Yu Dafu, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Guzal Sitdikova, Richard Pococke, and Joachim Ringelnatz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Penelope Delta ranks 155. Before her are Sténio Vincent, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, Honus Wagner, Nikolai Semashko, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, and Lucien Démanet. After her are Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Photius II of Constantinople, Oskari Mantere, Henry Travers, and Manuel Machado. Among people deceased in 1941, Penelope Delta ranks 149. Before her are Paul von Hintze, Lev Dovator, Štefan Banič, Fred Karno, Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, and Fritz Noether. After her are Ibrahim Tuqan, Tom Phillips, Ernst, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Igor Severyanin, Émile Nelligan, and Nikolai Gastello.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Penelope Delta ranks 473 out of 642. Before her are Andrée Chedid (1920), Mahmoud El Nokrashy Pasha (1888), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), Julian Fellowes (1949), Maximus I of Constantinople (350), and Alex Proyas (1963). After her are Kamal Hassan Ali (1921), Tefta Tashko-Koço (1910), Konstantinos Tsaldaris (1884), Pope Theodosius I of Alexandria (450), Atef Ebeid (1932), and Inji Aflatoun (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Penelope Delta ranks 51. Before her are Hafez Ibrahim (1872), Yusuf Idris (1927), Alaa Al Aswany (1957), Aisha Taymur (1840), Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889), and Andrée Chedid (1920). After her are Gamal El-Ghitani (1945), Latifa al-Zayyat (1923), Mahmud Taymur (1894), Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892), Bahaa Taher (1935), and Magdi Allam (1952).

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