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Ágota Kristóf

1935 - 2011

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Ágota Kristóf (Hungarian: Kristóf Ágota; 30 October 1935 – 27 July 2011) was a Hungarian writer who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristóf received the "European prize" (Prix Europe, a.k.a. Prix Littéraire Europe, Grand Prix Littéraire Européen) from ADELF, the association of Francophone authors, for Le Grand Cahier (1986; later translated into English as The Notebook). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ágota Kristóf has received more than 113,532 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Ágota Kristóf is the 444th most popular writer (up from 521st in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 52nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Writer.

Ágota Kristóf is most famous for her novel "The Notebook."

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

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  • 67.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ágota Kristóf ranks 444 out of 5,755. Before her are Enid Blyton, Frantz Fanon, Mika Waltari, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Comte de Lautréamont, and Seneca the Elder. After her are Gabriela Mistral, Qu Yuan, Ève Curie, Livius Andronicus, Richard Bach, and Thomas Paine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Ágota Kristóf ranks 22. Before her are Kenzaburō Ōe, Erich von Däniken, Michel Aoun, Theo Angelopoulos, Edward Said, and Isao Takahata. After her are Faisal II of Iraq, Fairuz, Omar Sívori, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Mercedes Sosa, and John Cazale. Among people deceased in 2011, Ágota Kristóf ranks 17. Before her are Peter Falk, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Wangari Maathai, Sócrates, Joe Frazier, and Annie Girardot. After her are Ramiz Alia, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Flórián Albert, Gary Moore, Rudolf Mössbauer, and Dennis Ritchie.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Ágota Kristóf ranks 37 out of 866. Before her are Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), Edward Teller (1908), Zoltán Kodály (1882), and Joseph Pulitzer (1847). After her are Viktor Orbán (1963), László Kubala (1927), Orestes (420), John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), Imre Lakatos (1922), and Stephen V of Hungary (1239).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Ágota Kristóf ranks 3. Before her are Theodor Herzl (1860) and Imre Kertész (1929). After her are Sándor Petőfi (1823), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Arthur Koestler (1905), Felix Salten (1869), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), Magda Szabó (1917), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), and Béla Balázs (1884).

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