WRITER

Aharon Appelfeld

1932 - 2018

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Aharon Appelfeld (Hebrew: אהרן אפלפלד; born Ervin Appelfeld; February 16, 1932 – January 4, 2018) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aharon Appelfeld has received more than 147,087 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Aharon Appelfeld is the 1,614th most popular writer (down from 1,409th in 2019), the 226th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 190th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aharon Appelfeld ranks 1,614 out of 7,302. Before him are Eileen Chang, Peter Altenberg, Pacuvius, Uri Avnery, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, and Marie de Gournay. After him are Gunnar Gunnarsson, Pierre Reverdy, Alice Walker, Adèle Hugo, Eupolis, and Marquis de Custine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Aharon Appelfeld ranks 111. Before him are Paolo Villaggio, Wolf Vostell, Amrish Puri, Joseph Zen, Charly Gaul, and Stuart Hall. After him are Dieter Rams, Dušan Makavejev, Margit Korondi, Iskandar of Johor, Christy Brown, and Orlando Letelier. Among people deceased in 2018, Aharon Appelfeld ranks 84. Before him are James Mirrlees, Odvar Nordli, Richard Pipes, Robert Faurisson, Uri Avnery, and Hayden White. After him are Fernando del Paso, Keith O'Brien, Oliver Dragojević, Kim Jong-pil, Oskar Gröning, and John Young.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Aharon Appelfeld ranks 226 out of 1,365. Before him are Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko (1883), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Igor Svyatoslavich (1151), Grigory Kulik (1890), Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941), and Vladimir Dal (1801). After him are Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Nina Matviienko (1947), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), Peter Wittgenstein (1768), and Anatole Litvak (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Aharon Appelfeld ranks 32. Before him are Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), and Vladimir Korolenko (1853). After him are Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), David Burliuk (1882), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Vasyl Stus (1938), Lina Kostenko (1930), and Zbigniew Herbert (1924).

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