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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 222,876 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia. Salvatore Quasimodo is the 574th most popular writer (up from 844th in 2019), the 720th most popular biography from Italy (up from 946th in 2019) and the 49th most popular Italian Writer.

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

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 574 out of 5,755. Before him are Dietrich Eckart, Eyvind Johnson, Isaac Babel, Dino Buzzati, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and Francisco de Quevedo. After him are Theodore Dreiser, Ludvig Holberg, Ghalib, Bernard Gui, Irène Némirovsky, and Elisabeth of Wied.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 40. Before him are Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Ernest Lawrence, Ricardo Zamora, Nikolai Vatutin, and Henning von Tresckow. After him are Carl Barks, Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Liebehenschel, Alfred Tarski, Jaroslav Seifert, and Louis Kahn. Among people deceased in 1968, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 21. Before him are Karl Barth, George Gamow, Enid Blyton, Erwin Panofsky, Jim Clark, and Carl Theodor Dreyer. After him are Corneille Heymans, Kees van Dongen, Henry Hallett Dale, Neal Cassady, Pitirim Sorokin, and Kirill Meretskov.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 720 out of 4,668. Before him are Pope Eusebius (250), Pope Vigilius (500), Antonio del Pollaiolo (1429), Arrigo Sacchi (1946), Alcmaeon of Croton (-510), and Pinturicchio (1454). After him are Giacinto Facchetti (1942), Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia (1759), Maria Goretti (1890), Pope Alexander II (1010), Boniface I, Marquess of Montferrat (1150), and Ottorino Respighi (1879).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 49. Before him are Fausto Cercignani (1941), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Cassiodorus (487), Aulus Gellius (123), Theocritus (-315), and Dino Buzzati (1906). After him are Pietro Metastasio (1698), Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749), Poliziano (1454), Carlo Gozzi (1720), and Curzio Malaparte (1898).

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