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Robertson Davies

1913 - 1995

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William Robertson Davies (28 August 1913 – 2 December 1995) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies gladly accepted for himself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robertson Davies has received more than 530,142 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Robertson Davies is the 5,363rd most popular writer (down from 4,376th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from Canada (down from 317th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 530k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.62

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robertson Davies ranks 5,363 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles Montagu Doughty, Wacław Potocki, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Daniel Tammet, Andrew Murray, and Henry Home, Lord Kames. After him are Marcus Furius Bibaculus, Majgull Axelsson, Leonard Howell, Paula Hawkins, Angélica Gorodischer, and Aneirin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Robertson Davies ranks 291. Before him are Kalervo Toivonen, Ulderico Sergo, Armand Lanoux, Marc Davis, Andrzej Mostowski, and Douglas Slocombe. After him are Andor Földes, Giorgio Bocchino, Yevdokiya Bershanskaya, Claude Renoir, Walter Winterbottom, and Nikolai Stepulov. Among people deceased in 1995, Robertson Davies ranks 256. Before him are Erich Hof, Warren E. Burger, Karl Warner, Aldo Gordini, Maurinho, and Benjamin Mazar. After him are Genrikh Kasparyan, Fischer Black, Giorgio Bocchino, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, George Stibitz, and Henry Roth.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Robertson Davies ranks 431 out of 1,622. Before him are Marc-André Hamelin (1961), Kevin Durand (1974), Michael Shanks (1970), Brock Chisholm (1896), Peter Kirby (1931), and Jack Kruschen (1922). After him are Frank Dixon (1878), Anne Murray (1945), Roy Dupuis (1963), Nancy Greene Raine (1943), Steven Ogg (1973), and Calixa Lavallée (1842).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Robertson Davies ranks 30. Before him are Michel Tremblay (1942), Naomi Klein (1970), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Harold Russell (1914), Grant Allen (1848), and Justine Musk (1972). After him are Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Antonine Maillet (1929), Sven Delblanc (1931), Mark Strand (1934), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), and Farley Mowat (1921).

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