WRITER

Sarah Kane

1971 - 1999

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Sarah Kane (3 February 1971 – 20 February 1999) was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Kane has received more than 887,794 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Sarah Kane is the 4,646th most popular writer (down from 4,141st in 2019), the 3,331st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,047th in 2019) and the 374th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 890k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sarah Kane ranks 4,646 out of 7,302. Before her are Vitaly Bianki, Cerverí de Girona, Erik Hornung, Virginie Ancelot, Levon Shant, and Ole Lund Kirkegaard. After her are Grace Aguilar, Margarita Aliger, Thomas Middleton, Mieke Bal, Hans Jæger, and Miljenko Jergović.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1971, Sarah Kane ranks 147. Before her are Gina Raimondo, Max Biaggi, César Sánchez, Ji Jin-hee, Renee O'Connor, and Dwight Yorke. After her are Imanol Alguacil, Moritz Bleibtreu, Sergej Barbarez, Gheorghe Mureșan, Will Yun Lee, and Mark Henry. Among people deceased in 1999, Sarah Kane ranks 184. Before her are Giuseppe Delfino, Paris Pişmiş, Toninho, Anahit Tsitsikian, Birgit Cullberg, and Rafael Iglesias. After her are Michael Aris, Einar Englund, Heinrich Schmid, Rick Danko, Regina Ghazaryan, and Peter Seeberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sarah Kane ranks 3,331 out of 8,785. Before her are Catherine of York (1479), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), Eric Sykes (1923), John Negroponte (1939), Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (1374), and Neil Aspinall (1941). After her are Peter Gethin (1940), Grace Aguilar (1816), May Whitty (1865), Thomas Middleton (1580), Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), and Peter Bonetti (1941).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Sarah Kane ranks 374. Before her are Isaac Watts (1674), George Chapman (1559), Lydia Becker (1827), Gilbert Adair (1944), Ronald Knox (1888), and W. S. Gilbert (1836). After her are Grace Aguilar (1816), Thomas Middleton (1580), Taylor Caldwell (1900), Stephen Baxter (1957), Peter Ackroyd (1949), and Gillian Rubinstein (1942).

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