WRITER

Ricardo Piglia

1941 - 2017

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Ricardo Piglia (November 24, 1941 in Adrogué – January 6, 2017 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ricardo Piglia has received more than 87,611 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ricardo Piglia is the 3,058th most popular writer (up from 3,795th in 2019), the 218th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 268th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Argentinean Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La Ciudad Ausente
Nombre falso
Crítica y ficción
Argentine Authors, Authors, Argentine, Criticism
Respiración artificial
Fiction, Disappeared persons, History
Plata quemada
Bank robberies, Fiction, Sieges
Respiracion Artificial

Page views of Ricardo Piglias by language

Over the past year Ricardo Piglia has had the most page views in the with 37,303 views, followed by English (8,179), and Portuguese (2,967). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Bulgarian (528.92%), Japanese (493.60%), and Estonian (118.89%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ricardo Piglia ranks 3,058 out of 7,302Before her are Tarafa, Joseph Joffo, Ibn Zaydún, Gregory Corso, Ahmadou Kourouma, and José Donoso. After her are Shulamith Firestone, Jean Astruc, Félix Fénéon, Saib Tabrizi, Liviu Rebreanu, and Abdullah Abdul Kadir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Ricardo Piglia ranks 236Before her are Pola Raksa, Dennis Sullivan, Stephen Krashen, Júlia Várady, Eric Braeden, and Eugène Terre'Blanche. After her are David Lewis, Margitta Gummel, Mike Love, Dirk Frimout, Yevhen Marchuk, and Lucien Aimar. Among people deceased in 2017, Ricardo Piglia ranks 202Before her are Gretel Bergmann, William Baumol, Jimmy Snuka, Michael Ballhaus, Gilberto Agustoni, and Laura Biagiotti. After her are Leo Kinnunen, Charles P. Thacker, Waldir Peres, Octavio Lepage, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, and Allan Holdsworth.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Ricardo Piglia ranks 218 out of 1,154Before her are Jorge María Mejía (1923), Matías Almeyda (1973), Vicente López y Planes (1785), Juan Gelman (1930), Luis Moreno Ocampo (1952), and José Della Torre (1906). After her are Charly García (1951), Roberto Perfumo (1942), Roque Sáenz Peña (1851), René Favaloro (1923), Martín Demichelis (1980), and Gabriel Heinze (1978).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Ricardo Piglia ranks 15Before her are Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), María Kodama (1937), Jorge Bucay (1949), and Juan Gelman (1930). After her are Roberto Arlt (1900), Leopoldo Lugones (1874), Juan José Saer (1937), César Aira (1949), Hector Bianciotti (1930), and Esteban Echeverría (1805).