WRITER

Tim Krabbé

1943 - Today

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Tim Krabbé (born 13 April 1943) is a Dutch journalist, novelist and chess player. Krabbé was born in Amsterdam. His writing has appeared in most major periodicals in the Netherlands. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tim Krabbé has received more than 137,859 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Tim Krabbé is the 3,489th most popular writer (down from 3,308th in 2019), the 560th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 505th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Dutch Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.50

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Chess curiosities
Chess
Red desert penitentiary
Marte Jacobs
De grot
The Cave
Vietnamese Americans, Travel, Biography
De stad in het midden

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tim Krabbé ranks 3,489 out of 7,302Before him are Jurij Brězan, Hiratsuka Raichō, Gary Snyder, Andrejs Pumpurs, Roger Vailland, and Immanuel Velikovsky. After him are Justus Jonas, Jonathan Littell, Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, Jeff Lindsay, Rosa Montero, and Mirko Kovač.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Tim Krabbé ranks 320Before him are Sanmao, Peter Straub, Alan Wilson, Larry Coryell, Soledad Miranda, and Martin Peters. After him are Randall Duk Kim, Pablo Milanés, Dante Ferretti, Roy Black, Milan Máčala, and Sam Hinds.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Tim Krabbé ranks 560 out of 1,646Before him are Albert Eckhout (1610), Willem Schermerhorn (1894), Corneille de Lyon (1500), Jetty Paerl (1921), Richard Witschge (1969), and Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835). After him are George Baker (1944), Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1792), Jan de Bray (1627), Pieter van Vollenhoven (1939), Elly Ameling (1933), and Bertus Aafjes (1914).

Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, Tim Krabbé ranks 27Before him are Gerard Reve (1923), Cornelis Vreeswijk (1937), Jacob Israël de Haan (1881), Willem Frederik Hermans (1921), Cornelis Tromp (1629), and Corrie ten Boom (1892). After him are Abraham Jacob van der Aa (1792), Bertus Aafjes (1914), Gysbert Japiks (1603), Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882), Jan Wolkers (1925), and Simon Vestdijk (1898).