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 93,364 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

  • 93k

    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
1992
Nombre falso
1975
Crítica y ficción
Argentine Authors, Authors, Argentine, Criticism
1986
Respiración artificial
Fiction, Disappeared persons, History
1980
Plata quemada
Bank robberies, Fiction, Sieges
1997
Respiracion Artificial
1993

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ricardo Piglia ranks 3,058 out of 7,302. Before 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 236. Before 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 202. Before 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 1,154. Before 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).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Ricardo Piglia ranks 15. Before 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).

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