WRITER

Renate Dorrestein

1954 - 2018

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Renate Maria Dorrestein (25 January 1954 – 4 May 2018) was a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She started working as a junior journalist for the Dutch magazines Libelle and Panorama. During the period 1977 - 1982 she published in Het Parool, Viva, Onkruid and Opzij. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Renate Dorrestein has received more than 37,282 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Renate Dorrestein is the 6,484th most popular writer (down from 5,903rd in 2019), the 1,051st most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 939th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Dutch Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 37k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Een sterke man
1994
Buitenstaanders
1983
Noorderzon
1986
Zonder genade
Man-woman relationships, Bereavement, Fiction
2002
Hart van steen
Fiction, Family relationships, Mentally ill
2001
Un coeur de pierre
2001

Page views of Renate Dorresteins by language

Over the past year Renate Dorrestein has had the most page views in the with 26,627 views, followed by English (3,115), and Simple English (954). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Occitan (118.78%), Simple English (112.47%), and Asturian (81.91%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Renate Dorrestein ranks 6,484 out of 7,302. Before her are Sabine Baring-Gould, Marc Connelly, Rohinton Mistry, Walter Besant, Saroo Brierley, and Eva Ström. After her are Arvi Pohjanpää, Volodymyr Vakulenko, Angus Wilson, Gerbrand Bakker, Norman Podhoretz, and Véronique Tadjo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Renate Dorrestein ranks 604. Before her are Al Sharpton, Zdeněk Šreiner, Julie Carmen, David Barron, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and Barbara Prammer. After her are Nastasia Ionescu, Mudashiru Lawal, Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir, Dan Butler, Gregory C. Johnson, and José Van Tuyne. Among people deceased in 2018, Renate Dorrestein ranks 532. Before her are Iraj Danaeifard, Frank Havens, Olivia Cole, Rafael Amador, Aleksandr Kurlovich, and Tim O'Connor. After her are João W. Nery, Jean Porter, Bill Slater, Dipali Barthakur, Kuldip Nayar, and Carole Shelley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Renate Dorrestein ranks 1,051 out of 1,646. Before her are Fernando Ricksen (1976), Sjaak Troost (1959), Mohammed Bouyeri (1978), Wim Meutstege (1952), Remko Pasveer (1983), and Demy de Zeeuw (1983). After her are Marianne Vos (1987), Gerbrand Bakker (1962), Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange (2003), Rik Smits (1966), Lotte Verbeek (1982), and Thekla Reuten (1975).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Renate Dorrestein ranks 59. Before her are Hendrik Marsman (1899), Guus Kuijer (1942), J. Slauerhoff (1898), Gerrit Achterberg (1905), Ian Buruma (1951), and Michel Faber (1960). After her are Gerbrand Bakker (1962), Arnon Grunberg (1971), Jan van Steenbergen (1970), Rutger Bregman (1988), Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (1991), and Femke Dekker (1979).

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