WRITER

Salvatore Quasimodo

1901 - 1968

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Salvatore Quasimodo (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre kwaˈziːmodo]; 20 August 1901 – 14 June 1968) was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Salvatore Quasimodo has received more than 239,313 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Salvatore Quasimodo is the 451st most popular writer (up from 573rd in 2019), the 574th most popular biography from Italy (up from 718th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Italian Writer.

Salvatore Quasimodo is most famous for his novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

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  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Giorno dopo giorno
1947
La terra impareggiabile
1958
Poems
1960
La vita non è sogno
1949
Ed è subito sera
1944
Lirici greci
1940

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 451 out of 7,302. Before him are Fausto Cercignani, Comte de Lautréamont, Ammianus Marcellinus, Karl Barth, Gabriela Mistral, and Susan Sontag. After him are Boris Vian, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, Héloïse, and Graham Greene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 30. Before him are André Malraux, Mohamed Naguib, Jean Dubuffet, Joaquín Rodrigo, Simon Kuznets, and Max Euwe. After him are Ricardo Zamora, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Andrey Vlasov, Henning von Tresckow, Witold Pilecki, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Among people deceased in 1968, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 16. Before him are Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, Trygve Lie, Max Brod, George Gamow, and Karl Barth. After him are Georg von Küchler, Erwin Panofsky, Henry Hallett Dale, Enid Blyton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Corneille Heymans.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 574 out of 5,161. Before him are Claudio Ranieri (1951), Fausto Cercignani (1941), Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720), Marcus Furius Camillus (-446), Ettore Bugatti (1881), and Saint Eustace (10). After him are Gallienus (218), Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Pierluigi Collina (1960), Clara Petacci (1912), and Anna Magnani (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 39. Before him are Elena Ferrante (1943), Pietro Aretino (1492), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Propertius (-50), and Fausto Cercignani (1941). After him are Tibullus (-50), Livius Andronicus (-280), Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Statius (40), and Gabriele Amorth (1925).

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