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Elsa Morante

1912 - 1985

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Elsa Morante (pronounced [ˈelsa moˈrante, ˈɛl-]; 18 August 1912 – 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, poet, translator and children's books author. Her novel La storia (History) is included in the Bokklubben World Library List of 100 Best Books of All Time. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elsa Morante is the 827th most popular writer (up from 1,071st in 2019), the 1,014th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,213th in 2019) and the 74th most popular Italian Writer.

Elsa Morante is most famous for her novel La Storia, which was published in 1976.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elsa Morante ranks 827 out of 7,302. Before her are Laura Ingalls Wilder, Colleen McCullough, Zeb-un-Nissa, Wilhelm Hauff, Theodore Beza, and Alain-René Lesage. After her are Nikolai Ostrovsky, Kobayashi Issa, John Bunyan, Bacchylides, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Elsa Morante ranks 45. Before her are Julius Axelrod, Woody Guthrie, Karl Malden, Pierre Boulle, Herbert C. Brown, and Chien-Shiung Wu. After her are Kim Philby, James Callaghan, Sonja Henie, Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, and Shoichi Nishimura. Among people deceased in 1985, Elsa Morante ranks 29. Before her are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Kim Yong-sik, Anne Baxter, Ferhat Abbas, and John Franklin Enders. After her are George Pólya, Emil Gilels, Tjalling Koopmans, Margaret Mahler, Tancredo Neves, and James Hadley Chase.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Elsa Morante ranks 1,014 out of 5,161. Before her are Piero Ferrari (1945), Hugo Pratt (1927), Carlo Rubbia (1934), Aristoxenus (-360), Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755), and Francesca Caccini (1587). After her are Marie Joséphine of Savoy (1753), Princess Mafalda of Savoy (1902), Alessandro Del Piero (1974), Giacomo Balla (1871), Antipope Anacletus II (1090), and Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Elsa Morante ranks 74. Before her are Maurus Servius Honoratus (363), Arrigo Boito (1842), Valerius Maximus (-100), Gnaeus Naevius (-275), Cesare Pavese (1908), and Gerard of Cremona (1114). After her are Stesichorus (-630), Ibycus (-600), Andrea Camilleri (1925), Gaius Lucilius (-180), Guido Cavalcanti (1258), and Marie Mancini (1639).

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