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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 1,621,195 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is the 309th most popular writer (up from 372nd in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Japan (up from 37th in 2019) and the 8th 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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  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 309 out of 5,755. Before him are Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, Roger Martin du Gard, Lorenzo Valla, J. M. Coetzee, and Paul Heyse. After him are Prosper Mérimée, Mario Puzo, Raymond Chandler, Paul Celan, Callimachus, and Gregory of Tours.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 15. Before him are Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Pearl S. Buck, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Martin Niemöller, Oliver Hardy, and Alexander Alekhine. After him are Sepp Dietrich, Theodor Eicke, Amanullah Khan, Arthur Compton, J. Paul Getty, and Gregor Strasser. Among people deceased in 1927, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 5. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, Isadora Duncan, Willem Einthoven, and Ferdinand I of Romania. After him are Juan Gris, Carlota of Mexico, Albrecht Kossel, Gaston Leroux, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Andranik, and Hugo Ball.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 31 out of 6,048. Before him are Olivia de Havilland (1916), Hiroo Onoda (1922), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Yayoi Kusama (1929), Osamu Tezuka (1928), and Lee Myung-bak (1941). After him are Kane Tanaka (1903), Gichin Funakoshi (1868), Sadako Sasaki (1943), Himiko (175), Emperor Kōmei (1831), and Tadao Ando (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Japan

Among writers born in Japan, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ranks 8. Before him are Yukio Mishima (1925), Matsuo Bashō (1644), Haruki Murakami (1949), Murasaki Shikibu (973), Osamu Dazai (1909), and Yasunari Kawabata (1899). After him are Kenzaburō Ōe (1935), Sei Shōnagon (966), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Masaru Emoto (1943), and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886).

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