The Stranger (novel)

Quality:

The Stranger - 1942 novel by Albert Camus. This book is the 211^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 291^st most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “The Stranger (novel)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 5.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

The 291^st most popular in books in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 211^th most popular in books.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8782^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “The Stranger (novel)”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2234 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Stranger is on the 291^st place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 211^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 11 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1360 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #341 in December 2009
• Global: #1610 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #9442 in May 2011
• Global: #7933 in March 2020

There are 46 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	Finnish (fi) Sivullinen		55.8583
2	English (en) The Stranger (Camus novel)		52.5744
3	French (fr) L'Étranger		45.6894
4	Catalan (ca) L'estrany		34.8397
5	Greek (el) Ο Ξένος		31.9668
6	Ukrainian (uk) Сторонній		30.8966
7	Russian (ru) Посторонний		27.0157
8	Azerbaijani (az) Yad (roman)		26.719
9	German (de) Der Fremde		26.0937
10	Korean (ko) 이방인 (소설)		24.0878

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	French (fr) L'Étranger		5 677 137
2	English (en) The Stranger (Camus novel)		4 070 419
3	Spanish (es) El extranjero		2 386 106
4	Russian (ru) Посторонний		1 144 530
5	German (de) Der Fremde		1 082 685
6	Italian (it) Lo straniero (Camus)		847 204
7	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان)		509 020
8	Portuguese (pt) O Estrangeiro (livro)		496 075
9	Polish (pl) Obcy (powieść)		330 547
10	Croatian (hr) Stranac (roman)		306 017

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) The Stranger (Camus novel)		52 633
2	French (fr) L'Étranger		18 229
3	Spanish (es) El extranjero		8 760
4	Italian (it) Lo straniero (Camus)		5 673
5	Japanese (ja) 異邦人 (カミュ)		5 463
6	Russian (ru) Посторонний		5 234
7	Chinese (zh) 異鄉人 (卡繆)		5 171
8	German (de) Der Fremde		4 992
9	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان)		2 741
10	Portuguese (pt) O Estrangeiro (livro)		1 843

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) The Stranger (Camus novel)		560
2	French (fr) L'Étranger		365
3	German (de) Der Fremde		128
4	Spanish (es) El extranjero		83
5	Italian (it) Lo straniero (Camus)		78
6	Persian (fa) بیگانه (رمان)		70
7	Dutch (nl) De vreemdeling		60
8	Japanese (ja) 異邦人 (カミュ)		52
9	Hebrew (he) הזר		49
10	Russian (ru) Посторонний		48

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) The Stranger (Camus novel)		3
2	Serbian (sr) Странац (роман)		1
3	Ukrainian (uk) Сторонній		1
4	Arabic (ar) الغريب (رواية)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Yad (roman)		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Чужденецът		0
7	Catalan (ca) L'estrany		0
8	Czech (cs) Cizinec (román)		0
9	Danish (da) Den fremmede (roman)		0
10	German (de) Der Fremde		0

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

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