The Most Famous
WRITERS from Bahrain
This page contains a list of the greatest Bahraini Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 5,755 Writers, 1 of which were born in Bahrain. This makes Bahrain the birth place of the 130th most number of Writers behind United Arab Emirates and Paraguay.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bahraini Writers of all time. This list of famous Bahraini Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Tarafa (543 - 569)
With an HPI of 52.25, Tarafa is the most famous Bahraini Writer. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Tarafa (Arabic: طرفة بن العبد بن سفيان بن سعد أبو عمرو البكري الوائلي / ALA-LC: Ṭarafah ibn al-‘Abd ibn Sufyān ibn Sa‘d Abū ‘Amr al-Bakrī al-Wā’ilī; 543–569), was a 6th century Arabian poet of the tribe of the Bakr. He is one of the seven poets of the most celebrated anthology of ancient Arabic poetry, known as the Muʿallaqāt, however just one of his poems is included. His fellow poets preserved in this work are Al-Nabigha, Antarah ibn Shaddad, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, 'Alqama ibn 'Abada and Imru' al-Qais.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 543 and 543. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased writers include Tarafa. As of April 2022, 1 new writers have been added to Pantheon including Tarafa.
