WRITER

Ronald Harwood

1934 - 2020

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Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Harwood has received more than 298,970 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Harwood is the 2,836th most popular writer (up from 3,504th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular South African Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ronald Harwood ranks 2,836 out of 7,302. Before him are Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, Hitoshi Igarashi, Adam Michnik, Joseph Delaney, John the Lydian, and Pierre Grimal. After him are Ben Hecht, Peter Høeg, Fritz Mauthner, Delmira Agustini, Mariama Bâ, and Fatma Aliye Topuz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Ronald Harwood ranks 192. Before him are Carel Godin de Beaufort, Raina Kabaivanska, Rudi Carrell, Dave Grusin, Hendrick Chin A Sen, and Pat Boone. After him are Yasutaka Tsutsui, Vernon Dobtcheff, Maureen Connolly, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Horst Szymaniak, and Giancarlo Baghetti. Among people deceased in 2020, Ronald Harwood ranks 206. Before him are Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Shirley Knight, David Stern, Juan Marsé, David Graeber, and Yuri Orlov. After him are Gigi Proietti, Helen Reddy, Mario Corso, Alfred Worden, Pierino Prati, and Silvio Marzolini.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Ronald Harwood ranks 52 out of 454. Before him are John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), Esther Brand (1922), Manfred Mann (1940), Piet Cronjé (1836), and Angelique Rockas (1951). After him are Christiaan de Wet (1854), Frances Ames (1920), Piet Joubert (1834), Eugène Terre'Blanche (1941), Bruce Grobbelaar (1957), and David Cooper (1931).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Ronald Harwood ranks 6. Before him are J. R. R. Tolkien (1892), J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), and André Brink (1935). After him are Laurence Oliphant (1829), Laurens van der Post (1906), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Deon Meyer (1958), Ingrid Jonker (1933), and Alan Paton (1903).

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