WRITER

Silvina Ocampo

1903 - 1993

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Silvina Ocampo (28 July 1903 – 14 December 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other." Her first book was Viaje olvidado (1937), translated as Forgotten Journey (2019), and her final piece was Las repeticiones, published posthumously in 2006. Before establishing herself as a writer, Ocampo was a visual artist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Silvina Ocampo has received more than 144,821 page views. Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Silvina Ocampo is the 1,590th most popular writer (up from 1,742nd in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Argentina (up from 94th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Silvina Ocampo ranks 1,590 out of 7,302. Before her are Mór Jókai, Lydia Koidula, Akiyuki Nosaka, Namık Kemal, Attila József, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. After her are Ibrahim ibn Yaqub, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Arnaldur Indriðason, Natalie Clifford Barney, Yaşar Kemal, and Mário de Andrade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Silvina Ocampo ranks 88. Before her are Heinz Reinefarth, Werner Ostendorff, Evelyn Waugh, Prince Nicholas of Romania, Charles W. Morris, and Mikhail Kalatozov. After her are Otto Abetz, Lou Gehrig, Aleksei N. Leontiev, Anny Ondra, Walker Evans, and Rudolf Serkin. Among people deceased in 1993, Silvina Ocampo ranks 64. Before her are Adelaide Hall, Rahmon Nabiyev, Hervé Villechaize, Felice Borel, Pierre Bérégovoy, and Eddie Constantine. After her are Luciano Leggio, Yen Chia-kan, Nina Berberova, C. Northcote Parkinson, Meliton Kantaria, and Kenneth E. Boulding.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Silvina Ocampo ranks 91 out of 1,154. Before her are Ariel Ramírez (1921), Mauricio Kagel (1931), Gustavo Santaolalla (1951), Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1971), José Froilán González (1922), and Gaspar Noé (1963). After her are Jorge Burruchaga (1962), Juan Román Riquelme (1978), Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (1947), Mauricio Pochettino (1972), Carlos Tevez (1984), and Héctor Yazalde (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Silvina Ocampo ranks 4. Before her are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Ernesto Sabato (1911), and Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914). After her are Manuel Puig (1932), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), Alberto Manguel (1948), Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), and María Kodama (1937).

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