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Cristina Calderón

1928 - 2022

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Cristina Calderón Harban (24 May 1928 – 16 February 2022) was a Chilean ethnographer, craftswoman, writer and cultural activist who was the last living full-blooded Yahgan person after the death of her 84-year-old sister Úrsula in 2005. By 2004, Calderón (often referred to as simply "Abuela", Spanish for "grandmother") and her sister-in-law Emelinda Acuña were the only two remaining native speakers of the Yahgan language, an indigenous language in Tierra del Fuego. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cristina Calderón is the 3,220th most popular writer (up from 3,708th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Chile (up from 68th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Chilean Writer.

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Among writers, Cristina Calderón ranks 3,220 out of 7,302. Before her are Edith Pargeter, Susanna Hall, Theodor Körner, Charles Kingsley, Philostratus of Lemnos, and Andrew Lang. After her are Fernán Caballero, Phlegon of Tralles, Yury Tynyanov, John Henry Mackay, Ignacio Ramonet, and Kristjan Jaak Peterson.

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Among people born in 1928, Cristina Calderón ranks 258. Before her are Eric Porter, Pernell Roberts, Irena Veisaitė, Sven Davidson, Peter Shirayanagi, and Mitchell Ryan. After her are Nils Christie, Ara Güler, Frederick Stafford, Bella Davidovich, Jacques Dupont, and Hiroshi Nakajima. Among people deceased in 2022, Cristina Calderón ranks 216. Before her are Eduard Artemyev, Liz Sheridan, George Crumb, Patrick Demarchelier, Edgar Savisaar, and Mitchell Ryan. After her are Ronnie Spector, Susana Dosamantes, Julio Jiménez, Borys Romanchenko, Gregory Itzin, and Karol Divín.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Cristina Calderón ranks 56 out of 321. Before her are Lucía Hiriart (1923), Claudio Bravo (1983), Vicar (1934), Vicente Huidobro (1893), Carlos Vidal (1902), and Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879). After her are René Schneider (1913), Guillermo Subiabre (1903), Ramón Freire (1787), Braulio Musso (1930), Alejandro Amenábar (1972), and José Miguel Carrera (1785).

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Among WRITERS In Chile

Among writers born in Chile, Cristina Calderón ranks 11. Before her are Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), Roberto Bolaño (1953), Antonio Skármeta (1940), Nicanor Parra (1914), José Donoso (1924), and Vicente Huidobro (1893). After her are Alberto Hurtado (1901), Francisco Coloane (1910), Jorge Edwards (1931), Gonzalo Rojas (1917), and Snooki (1987).

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