WRITER

Rubem Fonseca

1925 - 2020

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Rubem Fonseca (May 11, 1925 – April 15, 2020) was a Brazilian writer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rubem Fonseca is the 3,618th most popular writer (down from 3,168th in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 291st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rubem Fonseca ranks 3,618 out of 7,302Before him are Annie M. G. Schmidt, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, Mirko Kovač, Jacob of Serugh, Nathan Birnbaum, and Ramón Chao. After him are L. J. Smith, Edvard Radzinsky, Gary Snyder, Åsa Larsson, Willem Frederik Hermans, and Abu Isa al-Warraq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Rubem Fonseca ranks 246Before him are Jonathan Winters, Doris Roberts, Charles Mackerras, John Neville, Ernst Jandl, and Roy Haynes. After him are Mohammed Mzali, Yuli Daniel, Jeanne Crain, Fritz Laband, Luis Herrera Campins, and Kirill Lavrov. Among people deceased in 2020, Rubem Fonseca ranks 308Before him are Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto, Wojciech Zabłocki, Rhonda Fleming, Tengiz Sigua, Gergely Kulcsár, and Kuniwo Nakamura. After him are Paula Kelly, Jon E. Ahlquist, Paul Goma, Mark Blum, Barry Hulshoff, and John Shrapnel.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Rubem Fonseca ranks 367 out of 2,236Before him are Antônio Carlos Zago (1969), Flora Purim (1942), Nílton de Sordi (1931), Ruy Ramos (1957), Alberto Cavalcanti (1897), and Alfredo Ovando Candía (1918). After him are Denílson de Oliveira Araújo (1977), Mauro Silva (1968), Susana Vieira (1942), Argemiro (1915), Adhemar Pimenta (1896), and Alex (1982).

Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Rubem Fonseca ranks 17Before him are Carlos Marighella (1911), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), José de Alencar (1829), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), Monteiro Lobato (1882), and Oswald de Andrade (1890). After him are Lui Morais (1961), Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923), Ana Maria Machado (1941), Rachel de Queiroz (1910), Moacyr Scliar (1937), and Gonçalves Dias (1823).