WRITER

U. R. Ananthamurthy

1932 - 2014

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Udupi Rajagopalacharya Ananthamurthy (21 December 1932 – 22 August 2014) was an Indian contemporary writer and critic in the Kannada language. He was born in Thirtahalli Taluk and is considered one of the pioneers of the Navya movement. In 1994, he became the sixth Kannada writer to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of U. R. Ananthamurthy has received more than 625,277 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). U. R. Ananthamurthy is the 2,772nd most popular writer (down from 2,636th in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from India (down from 325th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 630k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Samskara Oxford India Perennials
2012
Singing Emptiness Enactments
Songs, indic, Hindu hymns, Music, indic
2008
Samskara Oxford India Perennials
Fiction, general, India, fiction
2012
Samskara
2011
Bharathipura
Indic fiction, history and criticism, Fiction
2012
Bara
Fiction, general, Kannada fiction, Translations into English
2016
Suragi
Authors, biography, Kannada Authors, Biography
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, U. R. Ananthamurthy ranks 2,772 out of 7,302. Before him are Petr Chelčický, Rosario Castellanos, Abolqasem Lahouti, Johannes Mario Simmel, Fumiko Enchi, and Robert Holdstock. After him are Tang Xianzu, Alexandre Herculano, Sibilla Aleramo, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Varian Fry, and Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, U. R. Ananthamurthy ranks 193. Before him are Qahhor Mahkamov, Vladimir Voinovich, Mostafa Chamran, Christiane Kubrick, Mamo Wolde, and Blagoje Adžić. After him are King Hu, Hassan Al-Turabi, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Majel Barrett, and Alfred Worden. Among people deceased in 2014, U. R. Ananthamurthy ranks 147. Before him are Jean-Jacques Marcel, Julian Rotter, Leslie Manigat, Frans Brüggen, Reuven Feuerstein, and James R. Schlesinger. After him are Tadeusz Różewicz, Kumba Ialá, Manuel Uribe, James Rebhorn, Vasiľ Biľak, and Horace Silver.

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In India

Among people born in India, U. R. Ananthamurthy ranks 354 out of 1,861. Before him are Kajol (1974), Vijay (1974), Mohammad Hidayatullah (1905), Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (1864), Zeb-un-Nissa (1638), and Ahmad Shah Bahadur (1725). After him are Rishi Kapoor (1952), Aruna Asaf Ali (1909), Salima Sultan Begum (1539), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), and Rash Behari Bose (1886).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, U. R. Ananthamurthy ranks 52. Before him are Jaggi Vasudev (1957), M. Karunanidhi (1924), T. H. White (1906), Jim Corbett (1875), Bhavabhuti (null), and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638). After him are Ram Prasad Bismil (1897), Sachchidananda Vatsyayan (1911), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), Maithili Sharan Gupt (1886), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), and Shibli Nomani (1857).

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