WRITER

Ricardo Palma

1833 - 1919

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Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano (February 7, 1833 – October 6, 1919) was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ricardo Palma has received more than 119,728 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ricardo Palma is the 4,018th most popular writer (up from 4,056th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Peru and the 9th most popular Peruvian Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 50.22

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Anales de la Inquisición de Lima
Inquisition
1863
The Knights of the cape
Legends, History
1945
Tradiciones peruanas
History, Legends, Anecdotes
1893
Armonías
1912
Tradiciones peruanas (primera selección)
Legends, History
1943

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ricardo Palma ranks 4,018 out of 7,302. Before him are Amir Hamzah, Sibylle Riqueti de Mirabeau, Michael Morpurgo, Kim Sowol, Diego Durán, and Otto Ludwig. After him are Lajos Bíró, Ludvík Vaculík, Eno Raud, Syd Field, Boualem Sansal, and Elbert Hubbard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Ricardo Palma ranks 53. Before him are Walter Clopton Wingfield, Paul Bert, Johan Ehrnrooth, Antoine Vollon, J. E. B. Stuart, and Fredrik von Otter. After him are Segismundo Moret, Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, François Perrier, Manuel Amador Guerrero, Gustaf Åkerhielm, and Hortense Schneider. Among people deceased in 1919, Ricardo Palma ranks 118. Before him are Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky, Woldemar Voigt, Paul Deussen, Mary Edwards Walker, Tibor Szamuely, and Viktor Knorre. After him are José Santos Zelaya, Wallace Clement Sabine, Henry Clay Frick, Oleksandr Murashko, Géza Csáth, and Paul von Jankó.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Ricardo Palma ranks 72 out of 287. Before him are Daniel Alomía Robles (1871), Micaela Bastidas (1744), Henry Ian Cusick (1967), José Bustamante y Rivero (1894), Héctor Chumpitaz (1943), and Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895). After him are Martín Vizcarra (1963), Ciro Alegría (1909), Mariano Ignacio Prado (1826), Alberto Gallardo (1940), Keiko Fujimori (1975), and Susana Higuchi (1950).

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Among WRITERS In Peru

Among writers born in Peru, Ricardo Palma ranks 9. Before him are Carlos Castaneda (1925), Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539), César Vallejo (1892), Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1535), José Carlos Mariátegui (1894), and José María Arguedas (1911). After him are Ciro Alegría (1909), Julio Ramón Ribeyro (1929), Alfredo Bryce (1939), Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854), José Santos Chocano (1875), and Jaime Bayly (1965).

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