Weltliteratur

World Literature According to Wikipedia

overview

Top 25 native writers of each language (i.e., writers that have mainly written in that language) that appear most frequently among the top 25 writers of the other 14 languages according to the following rankings:

The writers are ranked by the sum of the reciprocal ranks which is displayed after the name of each writer. Not all languages contain 25 native writers, since for these language less than 25 writers appeared among 25 writers of the other 14 languages (for the corresponding ranking measure).

To stress it once more, operationalization led to some contingent decisions, or, to quote our paper (preprint here), “declaring Virgil and Cicero ‘Italian’ writers was probably the most daring intervention when operationalizing our data” (so yes, we’re aware ;-).

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language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English J. K. Rowling (1.84) William Shakespeare (1.52) Edgar Allan Poe (1.23) George Orwell (0.64) Lewis Carroll (0.61) Charles Dickens (0.50) J. R. R. Tolkien (0.45) Samuel Beckett (0.43) Olivia Manning (0.41) Stephen King (0.41) Russell T Davies (0.37) William Faulkner (0.33) Robert Browning (0.33) Agatha Christie (0.33) Oscar Wilde (0.33) Samuel Johnson (0.31) William Gibson (0.30) Ayn Rand (0.30) Natalie Clifford Barney (0.28) Maya Angelou (0.27) Ernest Hemingway (0.27) H. P. Lovecraft (0.26) Harold Pinter (0.25) William Hazlitt (0.20) Washington Irving (0.17) 25
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (0.31) Hermann Hesse (0.22) Klaus Mann (0.22) Günter Grass (0.20) Kurt Tucholsky (0.20) Bertolt Brecht (0.18) Friedrich Schiller (0.11) Thomas Mann (0.04) E. T. A. Hoffmann (0.04)                                 9
French Victor Hugo (1.06) Voltaire (0.45) Marquis de Sade (0.41) Émile Zola (0.33) Benjamin Fondane (0.25) François Villon (0.20) André Gide (0.09) Georges Simenon (0.08) Tristan Tzara (0.08) Jules Verne (0.07) Stendhal (0.06) Fernando Arrabal (0.06) Charles Baudelaire (0.05) André Breton (0.05) Molière (0.05) Jean de La Fontaine (0.04) Arthur Rimbaud (0.04)                 17
Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2.12) Anton Chekhov (0.53) Anna Akhmatova (0.42) Leo Tolstoy (0.25) Marina Tsvetaeva (0.17) Vladimir Nabokov (0.08) Daniil Kharms (0.06)                                     7
Italian Cicero (0.51) Virgil (0.21) Ignazio Silone (0.12) Apuleius (0.11) Giovanni Boccaccio (0.09) Horace (0.06) Pier Paolo Pasolini (0.05) Bernardino Zapponi (0.04) Ovid (0.04)                                 9
Spanish Miguel de Cervantes (1.39) Gabriel García Márquez (1.11) Mario Vargas Llosa (0.08) Corín Tellado (0.08) Juan José Arreola (0.06) Julio Cortázar (0.06) Fernando Arrabal (0.06) Pedro Calderón de la Barca (0.05) Augusto Roa Bastos (0.05) Alfredo Bryce (0.05) José Martí (0.04)                             11
Portuguese Paulo Coelho (0.05)                                                 1
Chinese Lu Xun (0.10)                                                 1
Persian Nizami Ganjavi (1)                                                 1
Arabic                                                   0
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian Mircea Eliade (1) Mihail Sadoveanu (0.50) Ion Luca Caragiale (0.38) Benjamin Fondane (0.25) Alexandru Macedonski (0.20) Ion Negoițescu (0.12) Ion Creangă (0.12) Urmuz (0.10) Felix Aderca (0.09) Eugène Ionesco (0.06)                               10
Turkish Fuzûlî (0.09) Orhan Veli Kanık (0.06)                                               2
language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English William Shakespeare (10.50) J. R. R. Tolkien (2.59) Robert Christgau (0.83) J. K. Rowling (0.60) Arthur Conan Doyle (0.49) Roger Ebert (0.38) Charles Dickens (0.37) Edgar Allan Poe (0.36) Stephen King (0.35) Ernest Hemingway (0.26) Agatha Christie (0.24) George Orwell (0.19) Oscar Wilde (0.19) Will Durant (0.12) Samuel Beckett (0.09) Arthur Miller (0.09) Isaac Asimov (0.08) George Bernard Shaw (0.07) H. G. Wells (0.05) Jancis Robinson (0.05) Salman Rushdie (0.04) Arthur C. Clarke (0.04)       22
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2.04) Bertolt Brecht (0.94) Friedrich Schiller (0.30)                                             3
French Victor Hugo (0.72) Molière (0.60) Voltaire (0.58) Jules Verne (0.25)                                           4
Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky (0.88) Anton Chekhov (0.78) Leo Tolstoy (0.56) Maxim Gorky (0.18) Nikolai Gogol (0.05) Alexander Pushkin (0.05)                                       6
Italian Cicero (1.53) Dante Alighieri (0.97) Virgil (0.55) Ovid (0.36) Carlo Goldoni (0.08) Horace (0.05) Metastasio (0.05)                                     7
Spanish Miguel de Cervantes (0.12)                                                 1
Portuguese                                                   0
Chinese                                                   0
Persian                                                   0
Arabic                                                   0
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian                                                   0
Turkish                                                   0

PageRank writers

language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English William Shakespeare (12.75) Lord Byron (1.07) Charles Dickens (0.90) Edgar Allan Poe (0.70) Christopher Marlowe (0.56) Ernest Hemingway (0.52) T. S. Eliot (0.52) Stephen King (0.50) J. R. R. Tolkien (0.40) George Orwell (0.34) Alexander Pope (0.33) George Bernard Shaw (0.30) F. Scott Fitzgerald (0.29) C. S. Lewis (0.25) Zelda Fitzgerald (0.24) William Faulkner (0.21) John Milton (0.19) H. G. Wells (0.19) Oscar Wilde (0.18) William Wordsworth (0.17) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (0.17) Charlotte Brontë (0.16) H. P. Lovecraft (0.15) Arthur Koestler (0.14) George Henry Lewes (0.14) 25
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2.71) Heinrich Heine (1) Friedrich Schiller (0.55) Thomas Mann (0.23) Arthur Koestler (0.14) Klaus Mann (0.10) B. Traven (0.06) Bertolt Brecht (0.05)                                   8
French Victor Hugo (1.64) Voltaire (0.58) Charles Baudelaire (0.58) Molière (0.49) Arthur Rimbaud (0.33) Louis Aragon (0.33) André Breton (0.25) Jean Racine (0.22) Émile Zola (0.19) Gustave Flaubert (0.16) Jean de La Fontaine (0.14) Paul Verlaine (0.14) Frédéric Mistral (0.14) Jules Verne (0.13) Pierre Corneille (0.10) Anatole France (0.06) François Rabelais (0.05) François Mauriac (0.04)               18
Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1.47) Leo Tolstoy (0.97) Alexander Pushkin (0.92) Nikolai Gogol (0.35) Anton Chekhov (0.26) Maxim Gorky (0.11) Vladimir Mayakovsky (0.11) Ivan Turgenev (0.09) Velimir Khlebnikov (0.04)                                 9
Italian Dante Alighieri (2.33) Virgil (1.21) Petrarch (0.76) Giovanni Boccaccio (0.72) Ovid (0.28) Horace (0.14) Cicero (0.11) Ugo Foscolo (0.10)                                   8
Spanish Miguel de Cervantes (0.47) Rosalía de Castro (0.07) José Echegaray (0.06) Lope de Vega (0.06) Eduardo Pondal (0.05) Jorge Luis Borges (0.05) Rubén Darío (0.04) Witold Gombrowicz (0.04)                                   8
Portuguese                                                   0
Chinese Li Bai (0.04)                                                 1
Persian                                                   0
Arabic                                                   0
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian                                                   0
Turkish                                                   0

PageRank complete

language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English William Shakespeare (10.33) J. R. R. Tolkien (1.94) Edgar Allan Poe (0.89) Mark Twain (0.64) Charles Dickens (0.61) Ernest Hemingway (0.45) J. K. Rowling (0.40) George Orwell (0.20) Isaac Asimov (0.20) J. D. Salinger (0.18) Lord Byron (0.15) Henry James (0.10) Arthur Conan Doyle (0.10) Jane Austen (0.09) William Faulkner (0.09) James Fenimore Cooper (0.08) Jack London (0.07) Lewis Carroll (0.07) Will Durant (0.06) Walter Raleigh (0.06) Herman Melville (0.06) Saul Bellow (0.05) John Steinbeck (0.05) George Bernard Shaw (0.05) Robert Louis Stevenson (0.05) 25
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2.40) Friedrich Schiller (0.26) Bertolt Brecht (0.12) Thomas Mann (0.06) Karl May (0.04)                                         5
French Voltaire (1.18) Victor Hugo (0.84) Molière (0.82) Jules Verne (0.06) Émile Zola (0.05) Alexandre Dumas (0.04)                                       6
Russian Leo Tolstoy (0.68) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (0.60) Anton Chekhov (0.28) Alexander Pushkin (0.09) Constantin Stanislavski (0.06)                                         5
Italian Cicero (3.34) Dante Alighieri (1.25) Virgil (0.86) Ovid (0.38) Petrarch (0.11) Horace (0.05)                                       6
Spanish Isabel Allende (1) Miguel de Cervantes (0.18) Reinaldo Arenas (0.09)                                             3
Portuguese                                                   0
Chinese                                                   0
Persian                                                   0
Arabic                                                   0
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian                                                   0
Turkish                                                   0

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language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English William Shakespeare (3.45) Bram Stoker (2.52) Charles Dickens (1.55) Edgar Allan Poe (0.66) Helen Keller (0.57) Stephen King (0.56) Ernest Hemingway (0.50) J. R. R. Tolkien (0.42) Oscar Wilde (0.23) Agatha Christie (0.18) Herman Melville (0.17) George Orwell (0.17) Charles Bukowski (0.16) Salman Rushdie (0.15) Jane Austen (0.14) J. K. Rowling (0.14) Nicholas Sparks (0.13) T. S. Eliot (0.12) Ray Bradbury (0.11) George Bernard Shaw (0.08) Jack London (0.06) Sidney Sheldon (0.06) Hunter S. Thompson (0.05) Isaac Asimov (0.05) George R. R. Martin (0.04) 25
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (0.17) Hermann Hesse (0.09) Erich Maria Remarque (0.07) Bertolt Brecht (0.04)                                           4
French Victor Hugo (0.32) Jules Verne (0.26) Voltaire (0.16)                                             3
Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky (0.47) Leo Tolstoy (0.39) Alexander Pushkin (0.14) Anton Chekhov (0.13) Ivan Turgenev (0.06) Vladimir Mayakovsky (0.04)                                       6
Italian Dante Alighieri (0.11) Cicero (0.09) Oriana Fallaci (0.04)                                             3
Spanish Gabriel García Márquez (0.14)                                                 1
Portuguese Paulo Coelho (0.28)                                                 1
Chinese Sun Tzu (0.08)                                                 1
Persian                                                   0
Arabic Kahlil Gibran (0.04)                                                 1
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian                                                   0
Turkish                                                   0

page views 2013

language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English William Shakespeare (2.79) Douglas Adams (1.48) Helen Keller (1.15) Stephen King (0.88) Maurice Sendak (0.73) Edgar Allan Poe (0.63) J. R. R. Tolkien (0.54) Ernest Hemingway (0.53) Charles Bukowski (0.22) Nicholas Sparks (0.20) Charles Dickens (0.18) Oscar Wilde (0.18) Agatha Christie (0.17) J. K. Rowling (0.15) T. S. Eliot (0.11) Jack London (0.10) Sidney Sheldon (0.10) Alain de Botton (0.07) George Bernard Shaw (0.06) George Orwell (0.06) Jane Austen (0.05) Richard Bach (0.05) George R. R. Martin (0.05) Dan Brown (0.04) Ray Bradbury (0.04) 25
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (0.25) Erich Maria Remarque (0.12) Hermann Hesse (0.04) Bertolt Brecht (0.04)                                           4
French Victor Hugo (0.39) Jules Verne (0.27) Voltaire (0.18) Alexandre Dumas (0.15)                                           4
Russian Fyodor Dostoyevsky (0.58) Leo Tolstoy (0.37) Anton Chekhov (0.28) Alexander Pushkin (0.08) Nikolai Gogol (0.05) Vladimir Mayakovsky (0.05)                                       6
Italian Dante Alighieri (0.20) Cicero (0.05)                                               2
Spanish Gabriel García Márquez (0.10)                                                 1
Portuguese Paulo Coelho (0.35)                                                 1
Chinese                                                   0
Persian                                                   0
Arabic Nizar Qabbani (0.04) Kahlil Gibran (0.04)                                               2
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian                                                   0
Turkish                                                   0

page views 2014

language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 count
English William Shakespeare (2.52) Helen Keller (1.12) Stephen King (0.81) J. R. R. Tolkien (0.73) Ernest Hemingway (0.43) Edgar Allan Poe (0.40) Charles Dickens (0.25) J. K. Rowling (0.23) Agatha Christie (0.22) George R. R. Martin (0.15) Nicholas Sparks (0.11) Oscar Wilde (0.09) Rachel Carson (0.08) John Green (author) (0.06) Richard Bach (0.06) Charles Bukowski (0.06) P. G. Wodehouse (0.06) Isaac Asimov (0.05) Charlotte Brontë (0.05) Sidney Sheldon (0.05) George Orwell (0.04) George Bernard Shaw (0.04) Mark Twain (0.04) Salman Rushdie (0.04)   24
German Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (0.34) Erich Maria Remarque (0.14) Hermann Hesse (0.10)                                             3
French Victor Hugo (0.26) Jules Verne (0.26) Voltaire (0.15) Milan Kundera (0.04)                                           4
Russian Leo Tolstoy (1.18) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (0.53) Anton Chekhov (0.15) Alexander Pushkin (0.07) Vladimir Mayakovsky (0.05)                                         5
Italian Cicero (0.22) Dante Alighieri (0.16)                                               2
Spanish Gabriel García Márquez (0.72)                                                 1
Portuguese Paulo Coelho (0.34)                                                 1
Chinese                                                   0
Persian                                                   0
Arabic                                                   0
Korean                                                   0
Hungarian                                                   0
Serbo-Croatian                                                   0
Romanian                                                   0
Turkish                                                   0