WRITER

Arthur Koestler

1905 - 1983

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Arthur Koestler (UK: , US: ; German: [ˈkœstlɐ]; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr; 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arthur Koestler has received more than 1,477,305 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Arthur Koestler is the 554th most popular writer (up from 590th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 66th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Hungarian Writer.

Arthur Koestler is most famous for his novel, Darkness at Noon, which is a fictionalized account of the Moscow Trials.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Arrival and departure
1943
Dialogue with death
History
Spanning the recorded history of ground warfare from antiquity to the Atomic Age, this three-volume authoritative reference work documents it all-from generals to GIs, catapults to Kalashnikovs, ancient Israel to post-Soviet Chechnya.
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Sonnenfinsternis
1940
Arrow in the blue
Plant ecology
1952
Sleep walkers
1959
Thieves in the night
1946

Page views of Arthur Koestlers by language

Over the past year Arthur Koestler has had the most page views in the with 188,108 views, followed by French (30,542), and German (27,071). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (127.98%), Icelandic (99.19%), and Galician (97.38%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Koestler ranks 554 out of 7,302. Before him are Georg Trakl, Patrick Süskind, Mo Yan, Robert Burns, Klaus Mann, and Paul Lafargue. After him are W. Somerset Maugham, Francisco de Quevedo, Mikael Agricola, George Eliot, Dino Buzzati, and Ivan Bunin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Arthur Koestler ranks 19. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Mikhail Sholokhov, Astrid of Sweden, Vasily Grossman, Maria von Trapp, and Felix Bloch. After him are Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, Guillermo Stábile, Artem Mikoyan, Emilio Segrè, and Gerard Kuiper. Among people deceased in 1983, Arthur Koestler ranks 13. Before him are Hergé, Idris of Libya, Jon Brower Minnoch, Felix Bloch, Tennessee Williams, and Meyer Lansky. After him are Albert Claude, Nikolai Podgorny, Raymond Aron, David Niven, George Cukor, and Haldan Keffer Hartline.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Arthur Koestler ranks 60 out of 1,077. Before him are Stephen V of Hungary (1239), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Paul Erdős (1913), Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), George de Hevesy (1885), and John Sigismund Zápolya (1540). After him are Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), László Moholy-Nagy (1895), Béla Guttmann (1899), László Sólyom (1942), Karl Mannheim (1893), and Andrew I of Hungary (1010).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Arthur Koestler ranks 6. Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860), Imre Kertész (1929), Sándor Márai (1900), Sándor Petőfi (1823), and Ágota Kristóf (1935). After him are Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), and Nikolaus Lenau (1802).

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