WRITER

Penelope Lively

1933 - Today

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Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (née Low; born 17 March 1933) is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Penelope Lively has received more than 312,416 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Penelope Lively is the 6,026th most popular writer (down from 5,684th in 2019), the 546th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 505th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 310k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Moon tiger
British, Fiction, Literature
1987
City of the mind
Identity (Psychology), Architects, Fiction
1988
Perfect Happiness
Fiction, Widows, British
1983
Oleander, Jacaranda
Biography, British, Childhood and youth
A poignant and bittersweet memoir from the distinguished British fiction writer Penelope Lively, Oleander, Jacaranda evokes the author's unusual childhood growing up English in Egypt during the 1930s and 1940s. Filled with the birds, animals and planets of the Nile landscape that the author knew as a child, Oleander, Jacaranda follows the young Penelope from a visit to a fellaheen village to an afternoon at the elegant Gezira Sporting Club, one milieu as exotic to her as the other. Lively's memoir offers us the rare opportunity to accompany a gifted writer on a journey of exploration into the mysterious world of her own childhood.
1994
The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
Children's stories, Fiction, Ghosts
1973
According to Mark
Fiction, Biographers, Married people
1984

Page views of Penelope Livelies by language

Over the past year Penelope Lively has had the most page views in the with 36,414 views, followed by Russian (1,547), and German (1,351). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Czech (294.51%), Uzbek (258.54%), and Cornish (94.72%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Penelope Lively ranks 6,026 out of 7,302. Before her are Šatrijos Ragana, Anna J. Cooper, Dick Cavett, Andy Weir, Charles Le Goffic, and Sarah Trimmer. After her are Karin Alvtegen, Agustín Durán, Maria Janion, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Anne Fine, and Manuel Rojas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Penelope Lively ranks 469. Before her are Pete Wilson, Jonathan Penrose, Raúl Sánchez, David Storey, Jean Boiteux, and Thérèse Steinmetz. After her are Bobby Smith, Sheila Hancock, Michael Novak, Maurice Stokes, Pentti Linnosvuo, and Maurice Moucheraud.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Penelope Lively ranks 546 out of 642. Before her are Alifa Rifaat (1930), Hany Ramzy (1969), Aisha Rateb (1928), Avi Cohen (1956), Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh (1951), and Mamdouh Elssbiay (1984). After her are Sherine (1980), Hisham Abbas (1963), Magdi Abdelghani (1959), Ibrahim Hassan (1966), Angham (1972), and Pope Peter II of Alexandria (null).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Penelope Lively ranks 60. Before her are Mahmud Taymur (1894), Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi (1892), Bahaa Taher (1935), Magdi Allam (1952), Karim Rashid (1960), and Alifa Rifaat (1930). After her are Leila Aboulela (1964), and Mona Eltahawy (1967).

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