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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 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ricardo Piglia is the 3,808th most popular writer (down from 3,591st in 2019), the 268th most popular biography from Argentina and the 17th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 88k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ricardo Piglia ranks 3,808 out of 5,755Before her are James Redfield, Mary Renault, Jędrzej Śniadecki, Václav Hanka, Ferdinand Brunetière, and Shinichi Hoshi. After her are Jan Brzechwa, Bahram Beyzai, Dmitry Grigorovich, Alaiza Pashkevich, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, and Robert Rozhdestvensky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Ricardo Piglia ranks 308Before her are Albert Shesternyov, Ana Maria Machado, Dr. John, Alexander Ragulin, Maurice Piat, and Gabriel Zubeir Wako. After her are Helen Reddy, Neelie Kroes, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Ryuichi Sugiyama, Bo Svenson, and Hipólito Mejía. Among people deceased in 2017, Ricardo Piglia ranks 253Before her are Sue Grafton, Octavio Lepage, Željko Perušić, Leonid Bronevoy, Torgny Lindgren, and Ángel Berni. After her are Chiquito de la Calzada, Ernst Zündel, Nicky Hayden, Teresa Ann Savoy, Paula Fox, and Alois Mock.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Ricardo Piglia ranks 268 out of 1,019Before her are Rogelio Domínguez (1931), Estela de Carlotto (1930), Juan José Tramutola (1902), Marga López (1924), Luis Héctor Villalba (1934), and Nicolás Otamendi (1988). After her are Juan Hohberg (1926), Pascual Pérez (1926), Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901), Gustavo Cerati (1959), Antonio Roma (1932), and Martín Palermo (1973).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Ricardo Piglia ranks 17Before her are María Elena Walsh (1930), Jorge Bucay (1949), María Kodama (1937), Leopoldo Lugones (1874), Roberto Arlt (1900), and Esteban Echeverría (1805). After her are Juan José Saer (1937), Hector Bianciotti (1930), Rodolfo Walsh (1927), Olga Orozco (1920), César Aira (1949), and Ariel Dorfman (1942).