WRITER

Walter Abish

1931 - 2022

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Walter Abish (December 24, 1931 – May 28, 2022) was an Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Abish has received more than 81,183 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Abish is the 5,906th most popular writer, the 999th most popular biography from Austria and the 73rd most popular Austrian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 81k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Eclipse fever
Americans, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
Explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in politics, in business, in culture.
1993
In the future perfect
Brothers, Fiction, Social life and customs
1977
99, the new meaning
Fiction, Social life and customs, United states, social life and customs, fiction
1990
Double vision
American Novelists, Biography, Childhood and youth
2004
How German is it =
award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Brothers, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
1980
Alphabetical Africa
American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction
A "linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the 'geoglyphic' African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll."--Page 4 of cover.
1974
Alphabetical Africa
American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction
A "linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the 'geoglyphic' African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll."--Page 4 of cover.
1974
How German is it =
award:pen_faulkner_award=fiction, Brothers, PEN/Faulkner Award Winner
1980
99, the new meaning
Fiction, Social life and customs, United states, social life and customs, fiction
1990
Quer durch das grosse Nichts
1983
Eclipse fever
Americans, Fiction, New York Times reviewed
Explores the reaches of corruption and the limits of power in politics, in business, in culture.
1993
In the future perfect
Brothers, Fiction, Social life and customs
1977

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walter Abish ranks 5,906 out of 7,302. Before him are Julia Donaldson, Anthony Powell, Leigh Hunt, Clare Hollingworth, André Bjerke, and Princess Delphine of Belgium. After him are Michael Swanwick, John Green, Timur Vermes, Isaac D'Israeli, Monika Maron, and James Cooke Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Walter Abish ranks 504. Before him are Bogumił Kobiela, Árpád Bárány, Enrique Hormazábal, Ursula Donath, Ernest Schultz, and Paul Halla. After him are Leslie Bricusse, Frank Gardner, Paul Motian, Gloria Talbott, Anatoly Lein, and Otis Blackwell. Among people deceased in 2022, Walter Abish ranks 506. Before him are John McNally, Mike Hodges, Henry Lincoln, Bjarni Tryggvason, Jose Maria Sison, and Ned Rorem. After him are Amos Sawyer, Sture Allén, David Ray Griffin, Géza Csapó, Anita Gradin, and Gail Halvorsen.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Abish ranks 999 out of 1,424. Before him are Julius von Hann (1839), Felix Gottwald (1976), Regine Heitzer (1944), Maximilian Raub (1926), Othmar Karas (1957), and Paul Halla (1931). After him are Matthias Steiner (1982), Eduard Kainberger (1911), Franz Fischler (1946), Marc Janko (1983), Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (1970), and Otto Stuppacher (1947).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Walter Abish ranks 73. Before him are Ruth Klüger (1931), André Heller (1947), Ferdinand von Saar (1833), Eva Ibbotson (1925), Christoph Ransmayr (1954), and Thomas Brezina (1963). After him are Ľudmila Podjavorinská (1872), Gerhard Roth (1942), Barbara Frischmuth (1941), Robert Seethaler (1966), Wolf Haas (1960), and Maja Haderlap (1961).

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