WRITER

Tommaso Landolfi

1908 - 1979

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Tommaso Landolfi (9 August 1908 – 8 July 1979) was an Italian writer, translator and literary critic. His numerous grotesque tales and novels, sometimes on the border of speculative fiction, science fiction and realism, place him in a unique and unorthodox position among Italian writers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommaso Landolfi has received more than 46,863 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Tommaso Landolfi is the 4,132nd most popular writer (up from 4,286th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 47k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Racconto d'autunno
1947
A caso
1975
La pietra lunare
1939
Rien va
1963
La biere du pecheur
1989
Gogol's wife & other stories
1963
Cancroregina
1950
Racconto d'autunno
1947
Gogol's wife & other stories
Fiction, short stories (single author)
1963
Rien va
Diaries, Italian Authors
1963
La pietra lunare
1939
La biere du pecheur
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tommaso Landolfi ranks 4,132 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Lyuben Karavelov, Helen Fielding, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, John Christopher, and Jurek Becker. After him are Brigitte Hamann, Andrée Chedid, Dominique Fernandez, Kathy Acker, Klaus Rifbjerg, and Aleksey Koltsov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Tommaso Landolfi ranks 228. Before him are Aleksander Ford, Jenő Vincze, František Kriegel, Louis Jordan, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, and Teizo Takeuchi. After him are Tullio Pinelli, Helen Jacobs, Francesco Camusso, Eddie Tolan, Milton Berle, and Hugo Distler. Among people deceased in 1979, Tommaso Landolfi ranks 168. Before him are Ernest B. Schoedsack, Antonio María Barbieri, Marcel Jouhandeau, Grant Green, Leandro Remondini, and Heinz Erhardt. After him are Paul Meurisse, Waloddi Weibull, Igor Bondarevsky, Donny Hathaway, Gustav Winckler, and John Diefenbaker.

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