Silence (novel)

Silence - 1966 novel by Shusaku Endo. This book is the 2035^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Silence (novel)” in Indonesian Wikipedia has 18.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Persian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Silence (novel)”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Indonesian Wikipedia and edited by 384 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Silence is on the 2035^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Indonesian Wikipedia and cited 534 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Indonesian): #3503 in September 2017
• Global: #12372 in January 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Indonesian): #37971 in May 2018
• Global: #5358 in January 2017

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Persian (fa) سکوت (رمان)		69.6779
2	English (en) Silence (Endō novel)		32.7128
3	Catalan (ca) Silenci (novel·la)		28.9838
4	Malay (ms) Chinmoku		28.3087
5	Croatian (hr) Šutnja (roman)		27.4683
6	Spanish (es) Silencio (novela)		26.2786
7	Portuguese (pt) Silêncio (romance)		25.903
8	Bulgarian (bg) Мълчание (роман на Ендо)		25.6354
9	Swedish (sv) Tystnaden (roman)		23.9201
10	Italian (it) Silenzio (Shūsaku Endō)		23.5904

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Silence (novel)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 沈黙 (遠藤周作)		1 886 798
2	English (en) Silence (Endō novel)		483 587
3	Spanish (es) Silencio (novela)		98 511
4	Italian (it) Silenzio (Shūsaku Endō)		63 274
5	French (fr) Silence (roman)		60 931
6	Korean (ko) 침묵 (소설)		53 773
7	Chinese (zh) 沉默 (小說)		50 075
8	Polish (pl) Milczenie (powieść Shūsaku Endō)		34 022
9	Portuguese (pt) Silêncio (romance)		19 731
10	German (de) Schweigen (Roman)		16 569

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Silence (novel)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Silence (Endō novel)		8 013
2	Japanese (ja) 沈黙 (遠藤周作)		4 966
3	Russian (ru) Молчание (роман)		499
4	Chinese (zh) 沉默 (小說)		382
5	Spanish (es) Silencio (novela)		372
6	Italian (it) Silenzio (Shūsaku Endō)		288
7	Korean (ko) 침묵 (소설)		278
8	French (fr) Silence (roman)		262
9	Portuguese (pt) Silêncio (romance)		219
10	German (de) Schweigen (Roman)		184

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Silence (novel)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Silence (Endō novel)		96
2	Japanese (ja) 沈黙 (遠藤周作)		77
3	Italian (it) Silenzio (Shūsaku Endō)		29
4	Polish (pl) Milczenie (powieść Shūsaku Endō)		23
5	French (fr) Silence (roman)		21
6	German (de) Schweigen (Roman)		16
7	Spanish (es) Silencio (novela)		15
8	Korean (ko) 침묵 (소설)		12
9	Portuguese (pt) Silêncio (romance)		11
10	Greek (el) Σιωπή (μυθιστόρημα)		10

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Silence (novel)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Silenci (novel·la)		1
2	English (en) Silence (Endō novel)		1
3	Japanese (ja) 沈黙 (遠藤周作)		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Мълчание (роман на Ендо)		0
5	German (de) Schweigen (Roman)		0
6	Greek (el) Σιωπή (μυθιστόρημα)		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Silento (Endoo Ŝuusaku)		0
8	Spanish (es) Silencio (novela)		0
9	Persian (fa) سکوت (رمان)		0
10	Finnish (fi) Vaitiolo (romaani)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Silence (novel)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Japanese (ja) 沈黙 (遠藤周作)		254
2	English (en) Silence (Endō novel)		43
3	Persian (fa) سکوت (رمان)		43
4	Korean (ko) 침묵 (소설)		40
5	Spanish (es) Silencio (novela)		24
6	French (fr) Silence (roman)		18
7	German (de) Schweigen (Roman)		14
8	Chinese (zh) 沉默 (小說)		13
9	Italian (it) Silenzio (Shūsaku Endō)		12
10	Polish (pl) Milczenie (powieść Shūsaku Endō)		9

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Мълчание (роман на Ендо)
ca	Catalan Silenci (novel·la)
de	German Schweigen (Roman)
el	Greek Σιωπή (μυθιστόρημα)
en	English Silence (Endō novel)
eo	Esperanto Silento (Endoo Ŝuusaku)
es	Spanish Silencio (novela)
fa	Persian سکوت (رمان)
fi	Finnish Vaitiolo (romaani)
fr	French Silence (roman)
hr	Croatian Šutnja (roman)
id	Indonesian Silence (novel)
it	Italian Silenzio (Shūsaku Endō)
ja	Japanese 沈黙 (遠藤周作)
ko	Korean 침묵 (소설)
ms	Malay Chinmoku
nl	Dutch Stilte (roman)
no	Norwegian Taus himmel
pl	Polish Milczenie (powieść Shūsaku Endō)
pt	Portuguese Silêncio (romance)
ru	Russian Молчание (роман)
sh	Serbo-Croatian Tišina (roman)
sv	Swedish Tystnaden (roman)
ur	Urdu خاموشی (ناول)
vi	Vietnamese Trầm mặc (tiểu thuyết)
zh	Chinese 沉默 (小說)

Best Rank

Indonesian: #37971 05.2018

Global: #5358 01.2017

Best Rank

Indonesian: #3503 09.2017

Global: #12372 01.2017

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