WRITER

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 261,108 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Boris Pahor is the 1,236th most popular writer (up from 1,366th in 2019), the 1,347th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,478th in 2019) and the 96th most popular Italian Writer.

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  • 65.76

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Boris Pahor ranks 1,236 out of 7,302. Before him are Juliusz Słowacki, Maurus Servius Honoratus, David Irving, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Blaise Cendrars, and Bhartṛhari. After him are Radoje Domanović, Andrei Platonov, Shammai, Vittorio Alfieri, Yosa Buson, and Salawat Yulayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Boris Pahor ranks 58. Before him are Tito Gobbi, Mehmet Shehu, Xi Zhongxun, Jan Kubiš, Peter Cushing, and Roger Caillois. After him are Richard Stone, Gerda Christian, Stewart Granger, Luz Long, Edward Gierek, and Bill Shankly. Among people deceased in 2022, Boris Pahor ranks 70. Before him are Claes Oldenburg, Ivana Trump, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Teresa Berganza, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, and Klaus Schulze. After him are Cüneyt Arkın, Javier Marías, Sidney Altman, Edward C. Prescott, Ruggero Deodato, and Frank Drake.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Boris Pahor ranks 1,347 out of 5,161. Before him are Fede Galizia (1578), Piero Ferrari (1945), Lucifer of Cagliari (201), Antipope Innocent III (1150), Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882), and Pompeo Batoni (1708). After him are Domitia Longina (100), Tullio Levi-Civita (1873), Bernardo Daddi (1290), Sabrina Salerno (1968), Ludovico Manin (1725), and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Boris Pahor ranks 96. Before him are Cornelius Gallus (-69), Giovanni Papini (1881), Francesco Maria Piave (1810), Odoric of Pordenone (1286), Giovanni Verga (1840), and Maurus Servius Honoratus (363). After him are Vittorio Alfieri (1749), Claudio Magris (1939), Gaius Asinius Pollio (-76), Matteo Bandello (1484), Ubertino of Casale (1259), and Ignazio Silone (1900).

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