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Wilbur Smith

1933 - 2021

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Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel, When the Lion Feeds, which encouraged him to become a full-time writer. He went on to write three long chronicles of the South African experience, which became best-sellers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilbur Smith has received more than 1,618,896 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Wilbur Smith is the 542nd most popular writer (up from 668th in 2019), the most popular biography from Zambia and the most popular Zambian Writer.

Wilbur Smith is most famous for his historical fiction novels set in Africa, particularly the Courtney series.

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  • 42

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  • 5.14

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  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wilbur Smith ranks 542 out of 5,755Before him are Eugene O'Neill, Erich Kästner, Marie-Antoine Carême, Ivan Bunin, Laurence Sterne, and Kazuo Ishiguro. After him are Alfred Jarry, Aulus Gellius, Gaius Julius Hyginus, A. A. Milne, Heinrich Mann, and Luo Guanzhong.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Wilbur Smith ranks 29Before him are Paul Biya, Krzysztof Penderecki, Heinrich Rohrer, Costa-Gavras, Elinor Ostrom, and Arno Allan Penzias. After him are Richard Rogers, Kim Novak, Philip Zimbardo, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stanley Milgram. Among people deceased in 2021, Wilbur Smith ranks 24Before him are Raffaella Carrà, Marie, Princess of Liechtenstein, Bernie Madoff, Betty White, Aaron T. Beck, and Nathalie Delon. After him are Richard Rogers, Sonny Chiba, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Lars Vilks, Donald Rumsfeld, and Carlos Menem.

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In Zambia

Among people born in Zambia, Wilbur Smith ranks 1 out of 35After him are Kenneth Kaunda (1924), Stanley Fischer (1943), Godfrey Chitalu (1947), Michael Sata (1937), Denise Scott Brown (1931), Frederick Chiluba (1943), Levy Mwanawasa (1948), Edgar Lungu (1956), Kalusha Bwalya (1963), Medardo Joseph Mazombwe (1931), and Guy Scott (1944).

Among WRITERS In Zambia

Among writers born in Zambia, Wilbur Smith ranks 1

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