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Terry Pratchett

1948 - 2015

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Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983 and 2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. The first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Terry Pratchett has received more than 7,181,092 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Terry Pratchett is the 159th most popular writer (up from 218th in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 165th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Writer.

Terry Pratchett is most famous for his Discworld series of novels. The Discworld is a flat world that is carried on the backs of four elephants that stand on the back of a giant turtle.

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  • 7.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Terry Pratchett ranks 159 out of 7,302. Before him are Joseph Conrad, Catullus, Novalis, Fernando Pessoa, Karen Blixen, and John the Evangelist. After him are Georges Simenon, Lucian, Heinrich Böll, Menander, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Nicolas Flamel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Terry Pratchett ranks 5. Before him are Al Gore, Charles, Prince of Wales, Jean Reno, and Gérard Depardieu. After him are Svetlana Alexievich, Eckhart Tolle, Jean-Michel Jarre, Cat Stevens, Samuel L. Jackson, Hassan Rouhani, and Sauli Niinistö. Among people deceased in 2015, Terry Pratchett ranks 10. Before him are John Forbes Nash Jr., Demis Roussos, Nicholas Winton, Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Christopher Lee, and Omar Sharif. After him are Tomas Tranströmer, B.B. King, Helmut Schmidt, Anita Ekberg, Süleyman Demirel, and Henning Mankell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Terry Pratchett ranks 109 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Lee (1922), Liam Neeson (1952), Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (1857), George V (1865), Jeremy Bentham (1748), and Roger Bacon (1220). After him are Ian McKellen (1939), H. G. Wells (1866), Maggie Smith (1934), Ada Lovelace (1815), Blackbeard (1680), and Neville Chamberlain (1869).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Terry Pratchett ranks 15. Before him are Virginia Woolf (1882), Charlotte Brontë (1816), Lewis Carroll (1832), Mary Shelley (1797), Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), and Walter Scott (1771). After him are H. G. Wells (1866), Aldous Huxley (1894), Roald Dahl (1916), William Blake (1757), Anna Wintour (1949), and J. K. Rowling (1965).

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