WRITER

Rubem Fonseca

1925 - 2020

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Rubem Fonseca (May 11, 1925 – April 15, 2020) was a Brazilian writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rubem Fonseca has received more than 73,377 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Rubem Fonseca is the 3,168th most popular writer (up from 3,182nd in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Brazil (down from 271st in 2019) and the 13th most popular Brazilian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 73k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Pequeñas criaturas
Cuentos brasileños, Brazilian Short stories
2002
High Art (A Grande Arte)
Fiction, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery and detective stories
1983
Bufo & Spallanzani
1985
Agosto
Politics and government, Política y gobierno, Ficción
1990
Lúcia McCartney
1969
Os prisioneiros
1963

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rubem Fonseca ranks 3,168 out of 7,302. Before him are Uwe Johnson, Edgar Hilsenrath, Suryakant Tripathi, Eutychius of Alexandria, Yakov Perelman, and Casimir Delavigne. After him are Lily Braun, Nonius Marcellus, Ernst Wiechert, Halina Konopacka, José de Alencar, and Antoine de la Sale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Rubem Fonseca ranks 204. Before him are Andrei Sinyavsky, Scott Carpenter, Edward Gorey, Michael Halliday, Paul Wild, and Maureen Stapleton. After him are Justo Gallego Martínez, Zhores Medvedev, Matías González, Ilie Verdeț, Mike Connors, and Robert Mulligan. Among people deceased in 2020, Rubem Fonseca ranks 232. Before him are Annie Cordy, Hans-Jochen Vogel, Ken Robinson, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Gisèle Halimi, and Ken Shimura. After him are Nexhmije Pagarusha, Nina Bocharova, Julian Bream, Alfred Körner, Marlene Ahrens, and Suzy Delair.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Rubem Fonseca ranks 291 out of 2,236. Before him are Maxwell (1981), Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus (1965), Ademir da Guia (1942), Flávio Costa (1906), Luiz Bonfá (1922), and João Braz de Aviz (1947). After him are José de Alencar (1829), Alberto Cavalcanti (1897), Roberto Moreno (1959), Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues (1892), Dante (1983), and Ronald Golias (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Rubem Fonseca ranks 13. Before him are Mário de Andrade (1893), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Augusto Boal (1931), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Carlos Marighella (1911), and Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902). After him are José de Alencar (1829), Monteiro Lobato (1882), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), Oswald de Andrade (1890), Ana Maria Machado (1941), and Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923).

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