1938 - 2014
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.
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Among writers, Urs Widmer ranks 4,760 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 4,754
1923 - 1985
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 4,755
1947 - Present
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 4,756
1788 - 1830
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 4,757
1954 - Present
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 4,758
1926 - 2007
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 4,759
1938 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 4,760
1931 - 2023
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 4,761
1911 - 1981
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 4,762
1918 - 1988
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 4,763
1943 - Present
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,764
1960 - Present
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,765
1743 - 1825
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 4,766
Among people born in 1938, Urs Widmer ranks 376. Before 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 323. Before 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.
1938 - Present
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 370
1938 - Present
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 371
1938 - 2010
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 372
1938 - Present
HPI: 46.35
Rank: 373
1938 - Present
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 374
1938 - Present
HPI: 46.28
Rank: 375
1938 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 376
1938 - Present
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 377
1938 - 2017
HPI: 45.91
Rank: 378
1938 - Present
HPI: 45.90
Rank: 379
1938 - 2017
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 380
1938 - 2016
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 381
1938 - 1995
HPI: 45.79
Rank: 382
1930 - 2014
HPI: 46.15
Rank: 317
1941 - 2014
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 318
1922 - 2014
HPI: 46.13
Rank: 319
1930 - 2014
HPI: 46.09
Rank: 320
1924 - 2014
HPI: 46.07
Rank: 321
1925 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 322
1938 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 323
1932 - 2014
HPI: 45.98
Rank: 324
1941 - 2014
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 325
1933 - 2014
HPI: 45.97
Rank: 326
1923 - 2014
HPI: 45.94
Rank: 327
1926 - 2014
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 328
1921 - 2014
HPI: 45.86
Rank: 329
Among people born in Switzerland, Urs Widmer ranks 476 out of 876. Before 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).
1846 - 1933
HPI: 46.30
Rank: 470
1836 - 1918
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 471
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 472
1886 - 1956
HPI: 46.10
Rank: 473
1854 - 1920
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 474
1931 - Present
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 475
1938 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 476
1859 - 1917
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 477
1871 - 1944
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 478
1968 - Present
HPI: 46.04
Rank: 479
1913 - 2002
HPI: 46.02
Rank: 480
1879 - 1964
HPI: 46.00
Rank: 481
1958 - Present
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 482
Among writers born in Switzerland, Urs Widmer ranks 44. Before 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).
1919 - 1997
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 38
1929 - 1998
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 39
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.00
Rank: 40
1743 - 1818
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 41
1701 - 1776
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 42
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 43
1938 - 2014
HPI: 46.06
Rank: 44
1914 - 2008
HPI: 45.41
Rank: 45
1934 - Present
HPI: 45.32
Rank: 46
1985 - Present
HPI: 44.55
Rank: 47
1921 - 2017
HPI: 42.03
Rank: 48
1966 - Present
HPI: 42.02
Rank: 49
1963 - Present
HPI: 38.76
Rank: 50