WRITER

Yehoshua Kenaz

1937 - 2020

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Yehoshua Kenaz (Hebrew: יהושע קנז) (2 March 1937 – 12 October 2020) was an Israeli novelist who studied at the Hebrew University and at the Sorbonne. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yehoshua Kenaz has received more than 29,539 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Yehoshua Kenaz is the 5,379th most popular writer (down from 5,301st in 2019), the 303rd most popular biography from Israel (down from 280th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 30k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Aḥare ha-ḥagim
1964
The Way to the Cats
1994
ha-Ishah ha-gedolah min ha-ḥalomot
1973
ha- Ishah ha-gedolah min ha-ḥalomot
1973
Ḳeshet
Israeli literature
1979
Returning Lost Loves
Apartment houses, Fiction, Social life and customs
2001

Page views of Yehoshua Kenazs by language

Over the past year Yehoshua Kenaz has had the most page views in the with 6,231 views, followed by English (2,465), and Chinese (896). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Breton (129.03%), Egyptian Arabic (46.09%), and Basque (44.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yehoshua Kenaz ranks 5,379 out of 7,302. Before him are Carme Riera, Johan Henric Kellgren, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Trudi Canavan, Ludwig Ganghofer, and Anatole Le Braz. After him are Marieluise Fleißer, Jan Twardowski, Ali Smith, Jeanne Dumée, Tommaso Grossi, and Richard Llewellyn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Yehoshua Kenaz ranks 405. Before him are Tatyana Shchelkanova, Joseph Saidu Momoh, Hans Nowak, Antonio Bailetti, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, and Yuri Maslyukov. After him are Giuseppe Galante, Chad Everett, Martin Lauer, Christian de Chalonge, Alberto Sainz, and Jerry Weintraub. Among people deceased in 2020, Yehoshua Kenaz ranks 491. Before him are Renato Corti, Slaven Zambata, Rodolfo Fischer, Aleksandr Aksinin, Kazım Ayvaz, and K. C. Jones. After him are José Luis Capón, Tatyana Prorochenko, Efraín Sánchez, Richard Herd, Tim Severin, and Vladimír Zábrodský.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yehoshua Kenaz ranks 303 out of 466. Before him are Ishtar (1968), Hany Abu-Assad (1961), Gideon Sa'ar (1966), Ayelet Shaked (1976), Itzhak Vissoker (1944), and Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936). After him are Rina Mor (1956), Dudu Aouate (1977), Asaf Avidan (1980), Hana Laszlo (1953), Shmuel Rosenthal (1947), and Dani Shmulevich-Rom (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Yehoshua Kenaz ranks 21. Before him are Amira Hass (1956), Zeruya Shalev (1959), Tony Cliff (1917), Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926), Leigh Bardugo (1975), and Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936). After him are Rami Saari (1963), Nadav Lapid (1975), Sayed Kashua (1975), and Lucy Ayoub (1992).

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