WRITER

Adam Zagajewski

1945 - 2021

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Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, and the 2018 Golden Wreath of Poetry at the Struga Poetry Evenings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Zagajewski has received more than 162,494 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Adam Zagajewski is the 1,764th most popular writer (up from 2,198th in 2019), the 251st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 303rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 160k

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  • 57.18

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tierra del Fuego
2004
Polish Writers on Writing (Writer's World, The)
2007
Poems
Translations into English, Polish poetry
1991
Tremor
Translations into English
1985
Cienka kreska
1983
Płótno
1990

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adam Zagajewski ranks 1,764 out of 7,302. Before him are Richard Ford, Anne Perry, Suzanne Collins, Tavo Burat, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Raymond E. Feist. After him are Bhanubhakta Acharya, Herbjørg Wassmo, Vasily Shukshin, Friedrich Rückert, Joseph Joubert, and Magnús Scheving.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Adam Zagajewski ranks 148. Before him are Fernando Vérgez Alzaga, Jessye Norman, Pirri, Eizo Yuguchi, Princess Michael of Kent, and Raymond E. Feist. After him are Hans-Gert Pöttering, Carly Simon, Lee Jong-wook, Ilija Petković, Gary Brooker, and John Banville. Among people deceased in 2021, Adam Zagajewski ranks 122. Before him are Lucinda Riley, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Cloris Leachman, Humberto Maturana, Joan Didion, and Edward Cassidy. After him are Renée Simonot, Jimmy Greaves, Marshall Sahlins, Hank Aaron, Alberto Grimaldi, and Haya Harareet.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Adam Zagajewski ranks 251 out of 1,365. Before him are Petro Doroshenko (1627), Ruslana (1973), Yuri Knorozov (1922), Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), David Burliuk (1882), and Igor Belanov (1960). After him are Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Ludwik Fleck (1896), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Vasyl Stus (1938), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), and Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Adam Zagajewski ranks 35. Before him are Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), and David Burliuk (1882). After him are Vasyl Stus (1938), Lina Kostenko (1930), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), and Sholem Schwarzbard (1886).

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