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WRITER

Saki

1870 - 1916

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Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saki has received more than 1,711,134 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Saki is the 2,154th most popular writer (down from 1,550th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Myanmar (Burma) (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Burmese Writer.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saki ranks 2,154 out of 5,755Before him are Saigyō, Albert Gleizes, Chandrashekhara Kambara, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Princess Michael of Kent, and Idries Shah. After him are Marcel Achard, Paul Féval, père, Charles de Brosses, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, Lucilius Junior, and Oscar Milosz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Saki ranks 67Before him are Georges Claude, Kitaro Nishida, Masabumi Hosono, Guillaume Lekeu, Géza Maróczy, and Leonid Krasin. After him are Helmer Hanssen, Emil Orlík, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, David Riazanov, Motobu Chōki, and Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein. Among people deceased in 1916, Saki ranks 68Before him are Karl von Stürgkh, Hetty Green, Thomas Eakins, August Leskien, Huang Xing, and Friedrich Ernst Dorn. After him are Marie Bracquemond, James Connolly, Roger Casement, George Huntington, Ota Benga, and Patrick Pearse.

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In Myanmar (Burma)

Among people born in Myanmar (Burma), Saki ranks 17 out of 34Before him are Min Aung Hlaing (1956), U Nu (1907), Htin Kyaw (1946), Win Myint (1951), Diana Abgar (1859), and Thibaw Min (1859). After him are Tabinshwehti (1516), Nick Drake (1948), Bodawpaya (1745), Saw Maung (1928), Soe Win (1947), and S. N. Goenka (1924).

Among WRITERS In Myanmar (Burma)

Among writers born in Myanmar (Burma), Saki ranks 1After him are S. N. Goenka (1924).