WRITER

Ricardo Güiraldes

1886 - 1927

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Ricardo Güiraldes (13 February 1886 — 8 October 1927) was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ricardo Güiraldes has received more than 49,627 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Ricardo Güiraldes is the 5,281st most popular writer (down from 4,819th in 2019), the 479th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 403rd in 2019) and the 26th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Notable Works

Seis relatos
El sendero
Cuentos de muerte y de sangre
Don Segundo Sombra
Xaimaca

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ricardo Güiraldes ranks 5,281 out of 7,302Before her are Takashi Tezuka, Armand Lanoux, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, James Dashner, Shrilal Shukla, and Heðin Brú. After her are Semir Osmanagić, Marguerite Audoux, R. M. Ballantyne, Fritz von Unruh, Magdi Allam, and Joël Dicker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Ricardo Güiraldes ranks 248Before her are May Sutton, Pierre Prüm, Phyllis Johnson, Hector Goetinck, Arno Bieberstein, and Paul Radmilovic. After her are Urho Castrén, Ardeshir Irani, Robert Andersson, Jalmari Eskola, Arthur Amundsen, and Hugo Jahnke. Among people deceased in 1927, Ricardo Güiraldes ranks 125Before her are Feliciano Viera, Kenjirō Tokutomi, Franz Mertens, Kristian Prestrud, Reginald Dyer, and Klaus Berntsen. After her are Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer, Marcus Loew, Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, Johan Edman, Edward Henry Potthast, and C. E. Ruthenberg.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Ricardo Güiraldes ranks 479 out of 1,154Before her are Carlos Mayor (1965), María Luisa Bemberg (1922), Roberto Goyeneche (1926), Ricardo Montaner (1957), Néstor Togneri (1942), and Gustavo Zapata (1967). After her are Lucas Biglia (1986), Gabriela Michetti (1965), Alberto Acosta (1966), Nelly Kaplan (1931), Jorge González (1966), and Santiago Vernazza (1928).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Ricardo Güiraldes ranks 26Before her are Hector Bianciotti (1930), Esteban Echeverría (1805), Ariel Dorfman (1942), Olga Orozco (1920), Tomás Eloy Martínez (1934), and Rodolfo Walsh (1927). After her are Angélica Gorodischer (1928), Oliverio Girondo (1891), Juana Manuela Gorriti (1818), Luisa Valenzuela (1938), Manuel Rojas (1896), and Delfina Bunge (1881).