WRITER

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

1892 - 1927

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa has received more than 1,869,136 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 66 in 2019). Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is the 302nd most popular writer (up from 309th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Japan (up from 31st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Japanese Writer.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is most famous for his short story “The Nose,” which is about a man who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared.

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  • 68

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  • 4.86

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  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 302 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Brontë, Jon Fosse, Heinrich von Kleist, Claude Simon, Lucan, and Elfriede Jelinek. After him are Carlos Castaneda, Pierre Beaumarchais, Chrétien de Troyes, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Appian, and Antonin Artaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 12. Before him are Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Haile Selassie, Alexander Alekhine, and Pearl S. Buck. After him are Louis de Broglie, Theodor Eicke, Oliver Hardy, Sepp Dietrich, Engelbert Dollfuss, and Edward Victor Appleton. Among people deceased in 1927, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 3. Before him are Isadora Duncan, and Svante Arrhenius. After him are Willem Einthoven, Juan Gris, Ferdinand I of Romania, Albrecht Kossel, Carlota of Mexico, Gaston Leroux, Andranik, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and Kang Youwei.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 30 out of 6,245. Before him are Osamu Tezuka (1928), Hideki Tojo (1884), Kanō Jigorō (1860), Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Hattori Hanzō (1542), and Sadako Sasaki (1943). After him are Saigō Takamori (1828), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Lee Myung-bak (1941), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), and Itō Hirobumi (1841).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 9. Before him are Haruki Murakami (1949), Yukio Mishima (1925), Yasunari Kawabata (1899), Osamu Dazai (1909), Murasaki Shikibu (973), and Kenzaburō Ōe (1935). After him are Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Kōbō Abe (1924), Sugawara no Michizane (845), Sei Shōnagon (966), and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886).

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