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Pío Baroja

1872 - 1956

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Pío Baroja y Nessi (28 December 1872 – 30 October 1956) was a Spanish writer, one of the key novelists of the Generation of '98. He was a member of an illustrious family. His brother Ricardo was a painter, writer and engraver, and his nephew Julio Caro Baroja, son of his younger sister Carmen, was a well-known anthropologist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pío Baroja is the 1,372nd most popular writer (up from 1,553rd in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 544th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pío Baroja ranks 1,372 out of 7,302. Before him are Ba Jin, Peter Abrahams, Honoré d'Urfé, Alexander Radishchev, Boris Pahor, and Georg Kaiser. After him are Ignazio Silone, Albert Barillé, Alexander Afanasyev, Robert de Montesquiou, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, and Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Pío Baroja ranks 43. Before him are Princess Clémentine of Belgium, Édouard Herriot, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Hugo Alfvén, Mikhail Tsvet, and Hidesaburō Ueno. After him are Arsen Kotsoyev, Otto Braun, Ottokar Czernin, Eduard Bloch, Mathilde Kschessinska, and Marcel Renault. Among people deceased in 1956, Pío Baroja ranks 55. Before him are Gottfried Benn, Giovanni Papini, David Seymour, Chandrashekhar Agashe, Savielly Tartakower, and Erich Kleiber. After him are Hiram Bingham III, Hermann Abendroth, Elpidio Quirino, Thomas J. Watson, Mahmud Barzanji, and Nikolaj Velimirović.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pío Baroja ranks 463 out of 3,355. Before him are José Antonio Camacho (1955), Francisco Rabal (1926), Hydatius (395), Abraham Cresques (1325), Suintila (594), and Maslama al-Majriti (950). After him are Anthony Mary Claret (1807), Maria of Aragon, Queen of Castile (1403), Unai Emery (1971), Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada (1509), Antonio Tejero (1932), and Liuva I (550).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pío Baroja ranks 43. Before him are Rosalía de Castro (1837), Bernardino de Sahagún (1499), Joanot Martorell (1415), Ruy González de Clavijo (1400), Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (912), and Garcilaso de la Vega (1501). After him are José de Acosta (1540), Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993), Javier Marías (1951), José de Espronceda (1808), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939), and Ibn al-Khatib (1313).

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