New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

WRITER

Urs Widmer

1938 - 2014

Photo of Urs Widmer

Icon of person Urs Widmer

Urs Widmer (21 May 1938 – 2 April 2014) was a Swiss novelist, playwright, an essayist, and a short story writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Urs Widmer has received more than 21,298 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Urs Widmer is the 4,760th most popular writer (down from 4,084th in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 381st in 2019) and the 44th most popular Swiss Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 21k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Page views of Urs Widmers by language


Among WRITERS

Among writers, Urs Widmer ranks 4,760 out of 5,755Before him are Michael Lewis, John Holt, Sara Paretsky, Károly Kisfaludy, Hanif Kureishi, and John Gardner. After him are Fay Weldon, Álvaro Cunqueiro, Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson, Warren Farrell, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Urs Widmer ranks 376Before him are Severino Reija, Robert Rubin, Carlos Monsiváis, Duane Eddy, Bart Berman, and Jon Sobrino. After him are Paula Prentiss, Betty Cuthbert, Klaus Töpfer, Aleksei Petrenko, Jonathan Riley-Smith, and Carlos Lapetra. Among people deceased in 2014, Urs Widmer ranks 323Before him are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Christopher Jones, Sid Caesar, Alakbar Mammadov, Eugene Dynkin, and Mary F. Lyon. After him are Els Borst, Jean Vallée, Keiko Awaji, Jorge Romo, David Malet Armstrong, and Ben Bradlee.

Others Born in 1938

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 2014

Go to all Rankings

In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Urs Widmer ranks 476 out of 876Before him are Elizabeth Thompson (1846), Casimir de Candolle (1836), Patrick Moraz (1948), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), Théodore Flournoy (1854), and Madeleine Berthod (1931). After him are Émil Goeldi (1859), Walter Breisky (1871), Alex Zülle (1968), Hans-Peter Tschudi (1913), Hermann Barrelet (1879), and Bernard Fellay (1958).

Among WRITERS In Switzerland

Among writers born in Switzerland, Urs Widmer ranks 44Before him are Robert Pinget (1919), Nicolas Bouvier (1929), Alain de Botton (1969), Johann David Wyss (1743), Johann Jakob Breitinger (1701), and Martin Suter (1948). After him are Béatrix Beck (1914), Adolf Muschg (1934), Joël Dicker (1985), Kurt Marti (1921), Christian Kracht (1966), and Peter Stamm (1963).