WRITER

Aleksandrs Čaks

1901 - 1950

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Aleksandrs Čaks (born Aleksandrs Čadarainis; 27 October 1901 – 8 February 1950), was a Latvian poet and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandrs Čaks has received more than 35,423 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Aleksandrs Čaks is the 4,689th most popular writer (down from 3,302nd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 89th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Latvian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 35k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rīga
1983
Debesu dāvana
1980
Čaks six poems
1987
Mana Rīga
1961
Mūžības skartie
Latyshskie strelki (Russia and R.S.F.S.R.), Poetry
1981
Serdt͡s︡e na trotuare
1966

Page views of Aleksandrs Čaks by language

Over the past year Aleksandrs Čaks has had the most page views in the with 19,296 views, followed by Russian (3,713), and English (3,574). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (68.65%), Ukrainian (26.97%), and Lithuanian (26.82%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleksandrs Čaks ranks 4,689 out of 7,302. Before him are Sultan Bahu, Shudraka, Yoko Tawada, Louis Bromfield, Sakutarō Hagiwara, and François Tristan l'Hermite. After him are FM-2030, Zabel Sibil Asadour, Mykola Zerov, Park Wan-suh, Mary McCarthy, and Vera Panova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Aleksandrs Čaks ranks 234. Before him are Joseph Wendel, Sid Atkinson, Ondino Viera, Gérard Blitz, Norah Borges, and Otto Heckmann. After him are Sergey Obraztsov, Charles Stark Draper, Sam Spiegel, Hermann Josef Abs, Mildred Davis, and Arthur Samuel. Among people deceased in 1950, Aleksandrs Čaks ranks 140. Before him are Mikhail Tskhakaya, José Berraondo, Charles Gmelin, Alexander Tairov, Semyon Frank, and Giovanni Giorgi. After him are John M. Stahl, Maurice Costello, Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Gopinath Bordoloi, Sara Allgood, and Ransom E. Olds.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Aleksandrs Čaks ranks 134 out of 323. Before him are Māris Kučinskis (1961), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), Matvei Gedenshtrom (1780), Grzegorz Fitelberg (1879), Erik Hornung (1933), and Helmuts Balderis (1952). After him are Eliyahu Rips (1948), Rutanya Alda (1942), Evika Siliņa (1975), Jānis Daliņš (1904), Jānis Ivanovs (1906), and Werner Bergengruen (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Aleksandrs Čaks ranks 18. Before him are Krišjānis Barons (1835), Vizma Belševica (1931), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863), Garlieb Merkel (1769), and Erik Hornung (1933). After him are Werner Bergengruen (1892), Imants Ziedonis (1933), Andrejs Upīts (1877), Anna Brigadere (1861), Kārlis Skalbe (1879), and Astrid Ivask (1926).

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