WRITER

Ramón Chao

1935 - 2018

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Ramón Luís Chao Rego (21 July 1935 – 20 May 2018) was a Spanish journalist and writer. He won the Premio de Virtuosismo for Piano in 1955. The same year he moved to Paris, France to study music with Nadia Boulanger and Lazare Lévy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramón Chao has received more than 49,417 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ramón Chao is the 3,267th most popular writer (up from 3,443rd in 2019), the 1,077th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,088th in 2019) and the 118th most popular Spanish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 49k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Porque Cuba eres tú
2005
Conversaciones con Alejo Carpentier/ Conversations with Alejo Carpentier (Literatura Hispanoamericana/ Latinamerican Literature)
1988
Prisciliano de Compostela
Fiction
1999
Después de Franco, España
Biography, Politics and government, Statesmen
1975
The first Chinese democracy
Relations, Politics and government, Democracy
1997
The Train of Ice and Fire
2010

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ramón Chao ranks 3,267 out of 7,302. Before him are Ennio Flaiano, William of Jumièges, Erich Weinert, Bekir Çoban-zade, Maurice de Guérin, and Agniya Barto. After him are Sakya Pandita, Futabatei Shimei, Caesarius of Heisterbach, Julius Obsequens, Curt von Bardeleben, and John Brunner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Ramón Chao ranks 205. Before him are Dieter Hallervorden, Gerhard Mitter, Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, Michael Kahn, Valerio Adami, and Hillel Furstenberg. After him are Nabil Elaraby, Yvon Douis, Ervin Zádor, Valentin Gaft, Vladimir Aksyonov, and France-Albert René. Among people deceased in 2018, Ramón Chao ranks 192. Before him are René Houseman, Luigi Taveri, Gianfranco Parolini, Philip Bosco, Juraj Herz, and Levko Lukianenko. After him are Frank Carlucci, James Karen, Stanislav Govorukhin, Evelyn Berezin, Peter Mayle, and John Mahoney.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Ramón Chao ranks 1,077 out of 3,355. Before him are Dominic of Silos (1000), Petrus Alphonsi (1062), Constance of Aragon, Queen of Sicily (1343), Alberto Iglesias (1955), Josep Seguer (1923), and Torcuato Fernández-Miranda (1915). After him are Juan Bautista de Toledo (1515), Francisco López de Gómara (1511), Juan de Mariana (1536), Jorge Oteiza (1908), Dámaso Alonso (1898), and Fernando Savater (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Ramón Chao ranks 118. Before him are Pedro Salinas (1891), Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (1450), Robert de Nola (1500), Ildefonso Falcones (1959), and Joan Brossa (1919). After him are Dámaso Alonso (1898), Salvador Espriu (1913), Enrique Vila-Matas (1948), Carmen Laforet (1921), Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (1886), and Juan Boscán Almogáver (1490).

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