A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - 1918 autobiographical artist's novel and bildungsroman by James Joyce. This book is the 943^rd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 450^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” in Simple English Wikipedia has 2.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 450^th most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 943^rd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 771 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is on the 450^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 943^rd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 943 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2336 in December 2007
• Global: #9021 in September 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9120 in May 2008
• Global: #47019 in September 2013

There are 34 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, 2025 (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	English (en) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		87.8768
2	Basque (eu) Artistaren gaztetako portreta		42.8972
3	Ukrainian (uk) Портрет митця замолоду		42.5688
4	Spanish (es) Retrato del artista adolescente		38.022
5	German (de) Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann		34.6608
6	Portuguese (pt) Retrato do Artista quando Jovem		32.9751
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		30.0646
8	Turkish (tr) Sanatçının Gençlik Portresi		29.1048
9	Greek (el) Το πορτρέτο του καλλιτέχνη σε νεαρή ηλικία		28.2606
10	Arabic (ar) صورة الفنان في شبابه		27.9741

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		3 991 534
2	Spanish (es) Retrato del artista adolescente		348 058
3	Italian (it) Ritratto dell'artista da giovane		287 634
4	Russian (ru) Портрет художника в юности		168 492
5	French (fr) Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme		113 445
6	German (de) Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann		91 666
7	Portuguese (pt) Retrato do Artista quando Jovem		85 670
8	Persian (fa) چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی		68 225
9	Japanese (ja) 若き芸術家の肖像		62 517
10	Polish (pl) Portret artysty z czasów młodości		59 036

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		16 218
2	Spanish (es) Retrato del artista adolescente		1 096
3	Italian (it) Ritratto dell'artista da giovane		866
4	Russian (ru) Портрет художника в юности		811
5	French (fr) Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme		518
6	Portuguese (pt) Retrato do Artista quando Jovem		465
7	Japanese (ja) 若き芸術家の肖像		377
8	German (de) Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann		350
9	Chinese (zh) 一个青年艺术家的画像		345
10	Persian (fa) چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی		168

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		239
2	French (fr) Portrait de l'artiste en jeune homme		77
3	Italian (it) Ritratto dell'artista da giovane		65
4	German (de) Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann		58
5	Spanish (es) Retrato del artista adolescente		34
6	Hebrew (he) דיוקן האמן כאיש צעיר		28
7	Persian (fa) چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی		25
8	Ukrainian (uk) Портрет митця замолоду		22
9	Russian (ru) Портрет художника в юности		19
10	Polish (pl) Portret artysty z czasów młodości		18

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man		1
2	Arabic (ar) صورة الفنان في شبابه		0
3	Catalan (ca) Retrat de l'artista adolescent		0
4	Czech (cs) Portrét umělce v jinošských letech		0
5	German (de) Ein Porträt des Künstlers als junger Mann		0
6	Greek (el) Το πορτρέτο του καλλιτέχνη σε νεαρή ηλικία		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Portreto de la artisto kiel juna viro		0
8	Spanish (es) Retrato del artista adolescente		0
9	Basque (eu) Artistaren gaztetako portreta		0
10	Persian (fa) چهره مرد هنرمند در جوانی		0

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

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