WRITER

Ahmed Sofa

1943 - 2001

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Ahmed Sofa (Bengali: আহমদ ছফা, pronounced [aɦmɔd sɔfa]; 30 June 1943 – 28 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Khan, to be the most important Bengali Muslim writer after Mir Mosharraf Hossain and Kazi Nazrul Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Sofa has received more than 190,357 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmed Sofa is the 5,304th most popular writer, the 52nd most popular biography from Bangladesh and the 10th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 190k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmed Sofa ranks 5,304 out of 7,302. Before him are Majit Gafuri, Vikenty Veresaev, Gilles Perrault, Jan de Hartog, Justine Musk, and Teresa de la Parra. After him are Elizabeth Gilbert, David Peoples, Jacques Jasmin, Sax Rohmer, Carlo Cassola, and Vira Vovk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Ahmed Sofa ranks 520. Before him are Bobby Keys, Giuseppe Gentile, Foppe de Haan, Margaret Archer, Heide Simonis, and Gil Gerard. After him are Florence Ballard, Helen Quinn, Marita Lange, Carole Caldwell Graebner, Billy Cunningham, and Lynn Burke. Among people deceased in 2001, Ahmed Sofa ranks 244. Before him are Gerhard Stoltenberg, Thomas Sebeok, Marie Jahoda, Álvaro Magaña, Dipendra of Nepal, and Queen Aishwarya of Nepal. After him are Villy Sørensen, Oldřich Lajsek, Ashok Kumar, Dale Earnhardt, Lee Cronbach, and Pavel Sadyrin.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Ahmed Sofa ranks 52 out of 74. Before him are Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (1916), Bagha Jatin (1879), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Sufia Kamal (1911), Moudud Ahmed (1940), and Pritilata Waddedar (1911). After him are Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (1921), Abdul Quader Molla (1948), A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1915), Mohammad Mohammadullah (1921), Utpal Dutt (1929), and Vilayat Khan (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Ahmed Sofa ranks 10. Before him are Mahasweta Devi (1926), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Kamini Roy (1864), Shankha Ghosh (1932), and Sufia Kamal (1911). After him are Avijit Roy (1972), Mamunul Haque (1973), and Monica Ali (1967).

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