WRITER

Vincenzo Consolo

1933 - 2012

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Vincenzo Consolo (18 February 1933 – 21 January 2012) was an Italian writer. Consolo was born in Sant'Agata di Militello but resided in Milan from 1969 until his death. He began his literary career in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio (The Smile of the Unknown Mariner) and went on to become an award-winning author.In 2008 he was in Lisbon for a conference at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, where he met with the Portuguese poet Casimiro de Brito and Anna Luisa Pignatelli and wrote a comment on her novel "Nero Toscano".Vincenzo Consolo won the Strega Prize with Nottetempo Casa per Casa (At night, from house to house) concerning 1920s Sicily and the rise of fascism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vincenzo Consolo has received more than 25,714 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Vincenzo Consolo is the 5,764th most popular writer (down from 5,445th in 2019), the 3,963rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,699th in 2019) and the 283rd most popular Italian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 26k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio
1976
Retablo
1987
Lunaria
Drama, History, Spaniards
1985
Le pietre di Pantalica
1988
Nottetempo, casa per casa
1992
Sicilia
Social life and customs, Fratelli Alinari, Pictorial works
1985

Page views of Vincenzo Consolos by language

Over the past year Vincenzo Consolo has had the most page views in the with 13,477 views, followed by English (2,771), and German (1,312). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (75.94%), Latin (64.16%), and Sicilian (61.07%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 5,764 out of 7,302. Before him are José Hierro, Markus Zusak, Leena Krohn, Dániel Berzsenyi, Diana Der Hovanessian, and Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová. After him are Aleksandr Chakovsky, Shahrnush Parsipur, Javed Akhtar, Julian Symons, Ulrich Plenzdorf, and Daniel Pearl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 437. Before him are Jackie Blanchflower, Ágnes Gergely, Hiroshi Suzuki, Joe Orton, Jean Graczyk, and Leonid Bartenyev. After him are Caroll Spinney, Irmtraud Morgner, Yuri Chesnokov, Stefano Rodotà, John Hopfield, and Seydou Diarra. Among people deceased in 2012, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 375. Before him are Sherman Hemsley, Pierre Adam, Alan Cottrell, Margaret Mahy, Bernard Lovell, and Susan Tyrrell. After him are Ivan Calin, Dick Clark, Robert Sabatier, Frank Pierson, Norman Joseph Woodland, and Joe South.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 3,963 out of 5,161. Before him are Alberto Bevilacqua (1934), Giovanni Battista Rabino (1931), Gianfranco Brancatelli (1950), Alessandro Barbero (1959), Giuseppe Tosi (1916), and Ettore Giannini (1912). After him are Paolo Conti (1950), Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776), Paola Pigni (1945), Luciano Savorini (1885), Claudio Sala (1947), and Cristina Scabbia (1972).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Vincenzo Consolo ranks 283. Before him are Federico De Roberto (1861), Mario Luzi (1914), Federigo Tozzi (1883), Peider Lansel (1863), Federico Moccia (1963), and Alberto Bevilacqua (1934). After him are Raffaele La Capria (1922), Caterina Davinio (1957), Giorgio Faletti (1950), Sandro Veronesi (1959), Vittorio Arrigoni (1975), and Vincenzo Cardarelli (1887).

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