WRITER

Raffaele La Capria

1922 - 2022

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Raffaele La Capria (3 October 1922 – 26 June 2022) was an Italian novelist and screenwriter. His second novel, The Mortal Wound (Ferito a morte), won Italy's most prestigious award, the Strega Prize, and is today considered a classic of Italian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raffaele La Capria has received more than 52,746 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Raffaele La Capria is the 5,785th most popular writer, the 3,973rd most popular biography from Italy and the 284th most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 53k

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  • 44.98

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Colapesce
1974
Ferito a morte
Italian fiction, Italian language
1961
L' occhio di Napoli
In literature
1994
La Mosca Nella Bottiglia
1996
L' armonia perduta
Description, Fiction, History
1986
False partenze
History and criticism, Modern Literature
1974

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Raffaele La Capria ranks 5,785 out of 7,302. Before him are Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Avram Davidson, Edward Abbey, Aurora Mardiganian, Alifa Rifaat, and Maria Polydouri. After him are Marina Lewycka, Robert Sabatier, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Horacio Guarany, Thomas Mofolo, and Iris Chang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Raffaele La Capria ranks 372. Before him are Pauline Baynes, Rauf Hajiyev, Fritz Riess, José Hierro, Les Baxter, and Regina Resnik. After him are Kathleen Booth, Rosendo Hernández, Antoine Blondin, Miron Białoszewski, Börje Tapper, and Cécile DeWitt-Morette. Among people deceased in 2022, Raffaele La Capria ranks 481. Before him are Andrei Sukhovetsky, Monty Norman, John Emery, Gianni Celati, John Powell, and Roberto Maroni. After him are Keto Losaberidze, Douglas Trumbull, Kathleen Booth, Kiril Dojčinovski, Viacheslav Semenov, and Fabián O'Neill.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Raffaele La Capria ranks 3,973 out of 5,161. Before him are Luciano Savorini (1885), Claudio Sala (1947), Cristina Scabbia (1972), Roberto Maroni (1955), Mauro Picotto (1966), and Gabry Ponte (1973). After him are Attilio Fontana (1952), Stefano Rodotà (1933), Angelo Zorzi (1890), Edoardo Menichelli (1939), Renato Perona (1927), and Uberto De Morpurgo (1896).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Raffaele La Capria ranks 284. Before him are Mario Luzi (1914), Federigo Tozzi (1883), Peider Lansel (1863), Federico Moccia (1963), Alberto Bevilacqua (1934), and Vincenzo Consolo (1933). After him are Caterina Davinio (1957), Giorgio Faletti (1950), Sandro Veronesi (1959), Vittorio Arrigoni (1975), Vincenzo Cardarelli (1887), and Paolo Giordano (1982).

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