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Boris Pahor

1913 - 2022

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Boris Pahor, OMRI (; 26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Pahor has received more than 249,984 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Boris Pahor is the 1,369th most popular writer (up from 1,558th in 2019), the 1,482nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,618th in 2019) and the 106th most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 250k

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  • 58.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Boris Pahor ranks 1,369 out of 5,755. Before him are James Clavell, Neil Gaiman, Widukind of Corvey, Alfonsina Storni, Zachris Topelius, and James Patterson. After him are Diagoras of Melos, Avienus, Marie Anne Lenormand, Rodolphe Töpffer, Hovhannes Tumanyan, and Salawat Yulayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Boris Pahor ranks 75. Before him are Edward Gierek, Heinz Linge, Robert Adler, Stewart Granger, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, and Alexander Pokryshkin. After him are Loretta Young, Eddie Constantine, Mary Leakey, Heinz Kohut, Wolfgang Lüth, and Shih Kien. Among people deceased in 2022, Boris Pahor ranks 90. Before him are Olga Szabó-Orbán, Cüneyt Arkın, Elza Soares, Teresa Berganza, Edward C. Prescott, and Toshiki Kaifu. After him are Jozef Tomko, Saul Kripke, Jean-Jacques Beineix, Klaus Schulze, Jean-Jacques Sempé, and Jean-Claude Mézières.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Boris Pahor ranks 1,482 out of 4,668. Before him are Vincenzo Lancia (1881), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727), Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (1566), Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta (1898), Andrew, Duke of Calabria (1327), and Arsenius the Great (354). After him are Matthias Gallas (1584), Elisabetta Sirani (1638), Alessandro Magnasco (1667), Simon of Sicily (1093), Lea Massari (1933), and Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (1698).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Boris Pahor ranks 106. Before him are Francesco Maria Piave (1810), Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Ignazio Silone (1900), Marcus Tullius Tiro (-103), Vladimir Bartol (1903), and Ubertino of Casale (1259). After him are Giovannino Guareschi (1908), Chiara Lubich (1920), Maria Valtorta (1897), Margherita Sarfatti (1880), Giorgio Bassani (1916), and Ippolita Maria Sforza (1446).

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