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Reinaldo Arenas

1943 - 1990

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Reinaldo Arenas (July 16, 1943 – December 7, 1990) was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Reinaldo Arenas has received more than 461,855 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Reinaldo Arenas is the 1,202nd most popular writer (up from 1,329th in 2019), the 80th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Reinaldo Arenas ranks 1,202 out of 7,302. Before him are Subramania Bharati, Max Nordau, Pierre de Marivaux, Aristophanes of Byzantium, Dan Simmons, and Alexander Kielland. After him are Ibn Khallikan, Roger Caillois, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Odoric of Pordenone, Ida Tarbell, and Theodor Storm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Reinaldo Arenas ranks 99. Before him are Paul Van Himst, George Benson, Ken Thompson, Max Wright, Oskar Lafontaine, and Ri Chun-hee. After him are Jacques Laffite, Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Ulay, Mustafa Dzhemilev, Thomas J. Sargent, and Finn E. Kydland. Among people deceased in 1990, Reinaldo Arenas ranks 45. Before him are Rex Harrison, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Vasili Kuznetsov, Ugo Tognazzi, Capucine, and Ivan Serov. After him are Yiannis Ritsos, Angelo Schiavio, Alexander Pechersky, Art Blakey, Taiichi Ohno, and Jill Ireland.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Reinaldo Arenas ranks 80 out of 2,236. Before him are Hélder Câmara (1909), Vicente Feola (1909), Zumbi (1655), Ernesto Geisel (1907), Dida (1973), and Fernanda Montenegro (1929). After him are Chico Buarque (1944), Leonardo Boff (1938), Tancredo Neves (1910), Marcelo (1988), Amarildo Tavares da Silveira (1939), and Deco (1977).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Reinaldo Arenas ranks 5. Before him are Paulo Coelho (1947), Jorge Amado (1912), Vinicius de Moraes (1913), and Machado de Assis (1839). After him are Chico Xavier (1910), Mário de Andrade (1893), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Augusto Boal (1931), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902).

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