WRITER

B. Traven

1882 - 1969

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B. Traven (German: [ˈbeː ˈtʁaːvn̩]; Bruno Traven in some accounts) was the pen name of a novelist, presumed to be German, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. It has been claimed that it would be the pseudonym of one Frans Blom, an explorer of Mayan culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of B. Traven has received more than 529,371 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. B. Traven is the 965th most popular writer (down from 895th in 2019), the 205th most popular biography from Poland (down from 181st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 530k

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  • 62.04

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rebellion der Gehenkten
Mexico
19523 / 5
The creation of the sun and the moon
1968
Das Totenschiff
1926
Canasta de cuentos mexicanos
1956
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Schatz der Sierra Madre)
Fiction
Three American adventurers decide to invest their resources in a dangerous search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico
19344 / 5
Das Totenschiff
German fiction, novel, German literature
**The Death Ship** (German title: *Das Totenschiff*) is a novel by the pseudonymous author known as B. Traven. Originally published in German in 1926, and in English in 1934, it was Traven's first major success and is still the author's second best known work after *The Treasure of the Sierra Madre*. Owing to its scathing criticism of bureaucratic authority, nationalism, and abusive labor practices, it is often described as an anarchist novel. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_Ship))
1926
Der Schatz der Sierra Madre
Gold discoveries, Fiction, Americans
**The Treasure of the Sierra Madre** (originally titled **Der Schatz der Sierra Madre**) is a 1927 adventure novel by German author B. Traven, whose identity remains unknown. In the book, two destitute American men in Mexico of the 1920s join an older American prospector in a search for gold. John Huston adapted the book as a 1948 film of the same name. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre))
1927
The Bridge in the Jungle
Death, Fiction, Indians of Mexico
**Il ponte nella giungla** è un romanzo dell'autore B. Traven. Fu pubblicato originariamente nel 1929, con il titolo *The bridge in the jungle*. Ambientato nella giungla messicana, narra della disperazione di una madre a seguito della morte del proprio bambino. ([Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_ponte_nella_giungla))
1929

Among WRITERS

Among writers, B. Traven ranks 965 out of 7,302. Before her are Ivan Gundulić, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, Percy Fawcett, and Victorien Sardou. After her are Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Alexander Griboyedov, Imru' al-Qais, Heinrich Kramer, Nikolay Karamzin, and Stephen Covey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, B. Traven ranks 50. Before her are Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, Lluís Companys, and Éamon de Valera. After her are Yusef of Morocco, Wacław Sierpiński, Jean Giraudoux, Petre Dumitrescu, Pavel Florensky, and Aleksandra Ekster. Among people deceased in 1969, B. Traven ranks 33. Before her are Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Moïse Tshombe, Josef von Sternberg, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, and Alexandra David-Néel. After her are Sonja Henie, Enrique Ballestrero, Wacław Sierpiński, Allen Dulles, Vjekoslav Luburić, and Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, B. Traven ranks 205 out of 1,694. Before her are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Frederick I of Württemberg (1754), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Vasily Sokolovsky (1897), and Henry II the Pious (1196). After her are Józef Gosławski (1908), Paul Tillich (1886), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Henryk Górecki (1933), Przemysł II (1257), and Karl Denke (1860).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, B. Traven ranks 17. Before her are Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), Jan Potocki (1761), and Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788). After her are Johanna Schopenhauer (1766), Emil Ludwig (1881), Ernst Toller (1893), Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927), Arnold Zweig (1887), and Bolesław Prus (1847).

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