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Cristina Peri Rossi

1941 - Today

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Cristina Peri Rossi (born 12 November 1941) is a Uruguayan novelist, poet, translator, and author of short stories. Considered a leading light of the post-1960s period of prominence of the Latin-American novel, she has written more than 37 works. She has been a pioneer and one of the female authors associated to the Latin American Boom. Peri Rossi has lived in Barcelona since 1972, after a civic-military dictatorship was established in Uruguay and censored her works. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cristina Peri Rossi is the 3,015th most popular writer (up from 3,364th in 2019), the 70th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 83rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Uruguayan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cristina Peri Rossi ranks 3,015 out of 7,302. Before her are Diphilus, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Leonid Leonov, Rachel Bluwstein, Anne McCaffrey, and John Aubrey. After her are Ferenc Kazinczy, Juan Pablo Bonet, Titus Burckhardt, Viktor Dyk, Antal Szerb, and Jean Lorrain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Cristina Peri Rossi ranks 257. Before her are Leonid Kizim, Angelo Domenghini, Percy Sledge, Patricio Guzmán, Eugène Terre'Blanche, and Alfred Aho. After her are Boris Vallejo, Sonny Landham, Chucho Valdés, Dennis Sullivan, Yuri Norstein, and Gregory Benford.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Cristina Peri Rossi ranks 70 out of 444. Before her are Gabriel Terra (1873), Michele Andreolo (1912), Víctor Rodríguez Andrade (1927), Carlos Romero (1927), Eusebio Tejera (1922), and Miguel Capuccini (1904). After her are Emilio Recoba (1904), Francisco Canaro (1888), Aníbal Paz (1917), Gustavo Rojo (1923), Rafael Addiego Bruno (1923), and Matías González (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Cristina Peri Rossi ranks 9. Before her are Mario Benedetti (1920), Jules Laforgue (1860), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Jules Supervielle (1884), and Delmira Agustini (1886). After her are Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), José Enrique Rodó (1871), Ida Vitale (1923), Felisberto Hernández (1902), Alfredo Zitarrosa (1936), and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (1855).

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