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Rosario Castellanos

1925 - 1974

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Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈsaɾjo kasteˈʝanos]; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. She was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced Mexican feminist theory and cultural studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rosario Castellanos has received more than 354,677 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Rosario Castellanos is the 2,403rd most popular writer (down from 2,341st in 2019), the 107th most popular biography from Mexico (down from 103rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Mexican Writer.

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  • 350k

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  • 53.69

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rosario Castellanos ranks 2,403 out of 5,755Before her are Mihail Sadoveanu, Menasseh Ben Israel, T. H. White, Alfonso Sastre, John Webster, and Aleksander Chodźko. After her are William L. Shirer, Winston Groom, Nennius, Charles Berlitz, Isabella di Morra, and Hamnet Shakespeare.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Rosario Castellanos ranks 158Before her are Olof Thunberg, Andrei Sinyavsky, Louison Bobet, Alexei Tupolev, Quett Masire, and Luis Molowny. After her are Ali Hassan Mwinyi, Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Katherine MacGregor, Sergei Salnikov, Doris Hart, and François-Xavier Ortoli. Among people deceased in 1974, Rosario Castellanos ranks 86Before her are Wang Ming, Roberto Assagioli, Walther Meissner, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Candy Darling, and Lev Oborin. After her are Maximilian de Angelis, Vladimir Fock, Nick Drake, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Yevgeny Vuchetich, and Olga Baclanova.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Rosario Castellanos ranks 107 out of 585Before her are Jorge Negrete (1910), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), Armando Manzanero (1935), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Laura Esquivel (1950), and Antonio Aguilar (1919). After her are Agustín Lara (1897), Emilio Portes Gil (1890), Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (1823), Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1889), Miguel Miramón (1832), and Anastasio Bustamante (1780).

Among WRITERS In Mexico

Among writers born in Mexico, Rosario Castellanos ranks 7Before her are Octavio Paz (1914), Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), Juan Rulfo (1917), Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (1581), and Laura Esquivel (1950). After her are Don Miguel Ruiz (1952), Mariano Azuela (1873), Cesar Millan (1969), Amado Nervo (1870), José Emilio Pacheco (1939), and Fernando del Paso (1935).