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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 279,694 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ronald Harwood is the 3,517th most popular writer (down from 3,271st in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from South Africa (down from 60th in 2019) and the 8th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.07

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ronald Harwood ranks 3,517 out of 5,755. Before him are Jerzy Giedroyc, Musine Kokalari, Ahmed Rami, Reinhard Bonnke, Roger Vailland, and Giuseppe Gioachino Belli. After him are Chögyam Trungpa, Alfred Kerr, Leopold Zunz, David Bergelson, Peter Wessel Zapffe, and Henrietta Szold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Ronald Harwood ranks 237. Before him are Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Oleg Basilashvili, Otis Rush, Billy Paul, Maureen Connolly, and Alan Baddeley. After him are Lee Friedlander, Ron Flowers, Marilyn Horne, Susan George, Anne Haney, and Zequinha. Among people deceased in 2020, Ronald Harwood ranks 261. Before him are Pierino Prati, José Bonaparte, Jaswant Singh, Gary Peacock, Myroslav Skoryk, and Mario Corso. After him are Nobby Stiles, Jeremy Bulloch, Sadiq al-Mahdi, Idir, Roger Carel, and Milka Babović.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Ronald Harwood ranks 72 out of 374. Before him are Navi Pillay (1941), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Steve Nash (1974), and Nico Diederichs (1903). After him are Piet Retief (1780), Laurens van der Post (1906), Cecil Kellaway (1890), Evelyn Mase (1922), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), and Deon Meyer (1958).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Ronald Harwood ranks 8. Before him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), and Laurence Oliphant (1829). After him are Laurens van der Post (1906), Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Elisabeth Eybers (1915), and Elsa Joubert (1922).

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