WRITER

Simin Daneshvar

1921 - 2012

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Simin Dāneshvar (Persian: سیمین دانشور‎; 28 April 1921 – 8 March 2012) was an Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer, and translator. She was largely regarded as the first major Iranian woman novelist. Her books dealt with the lives of ordinary Iranians, especially those of women, and through the lens of recent political and social events in Iran at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simin Daneshvar has received more than 119,329 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Simin Daneshvar is the 3,891st most popular writer (down from 3,681st in 2019), the 343rd most popular biography from Iran (down from 297th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 50.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Simin Daneshvar ranks 3,891 out of 7,302. Before her are Cassandra Clare, Peter Bichsel, Thomas Murner, Lydia Davis, Vitsentzos Kornaros, and Christian Gotthilf Salzmann. After her are Mikheil Javakhishvili, Mahadev Desai, Ceija Stojka, Michael Blake, Giulio Angioni, and Mia Couto.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Simin Daneshvar ranks 233. Before her are Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, Inge Borkh, Bengt Danielsson, Jean Richard, Saul Zaentz, and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. After her are Alexander Kemurdzhian, Ida Fink, Rinaldo Martino, Elizabeth Wilson, Ernst Haas, and Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. Among people deceased in 2012, Simin Daneshvar ranks 218. Before her are Richard Lynch, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Peter Carsten, Sergio Toppi, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, and John Hick. After her are Barry Commoner, Jim Marshall, Pierre Schoendoerffer, Humayun Ahmed, Takeshi Urata, and Claude Miller.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Simin Daneshvar ranks 343 out of 631. Before her are Jalil Zandi (1951), Abol-Fath Khan Zand (1755), Hafiz-i Abru (null), Masoud Kimiai (1941), Gholam Reza Azhari (1912), and Cassandra Clare (1973). After her are Anousheh Ansari (1966), Mahmoud Taleghani (1911), Iraj Mirza (1874), Mohsen Rezaee (1954), Fazlullah Nouri (1843), and Haj Ali Razmara (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Simin Daneshvar ranks 47. Before her are Azar Nafisi (1955), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Ibn Bibi (1250), Simin Behbahani (1927), Samad Behrangi (1939), and Cassandra Clare (1973). After her are Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Bozorg Alavi (1904), Hushang Ebtehaj (1928), Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani (1001), and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892).

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