WRITER

Borislav Pekić

1930 - 1992

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Borislav Pekić (Serbian Cyrillic: Борислав Пекић, pronounced [bǒrislaʋ pěkitɕ]; 4 February 1930 – 2 July 1992) was a Serbian and Yugoslav writer and political activist. He was born in 1930, to a prominent family in Montenegro, at that time part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. From 1945 until his emigration to London in 1971, he lived in Belgrade. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Borislav Pekić has received more than 144,840 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Borislav Pekić is the 2,745th most popular writer (up from 2,935th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Montenegro (down from 36th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Montenegrin Writer.

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  • 140k

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  • 53.64

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Vreme čuda
1965
Hodočašće Arsenija Njegovana
1971
Moral i demokratija
Moral and ethical aspects, Democracy
2008
Uspenje i sunovrat Ikara Gubelkijana
1984
Besnilo
1983
Odbrana i poslednji dani
1977
Moral i demokratija
Moral and ethical aspects, Democracy, Demokratie
2008
1999
1984
Život na ledu
Diaries, Biography, Serbian Authors
2009
Hodočašće Arsenija Njegovana
Fiction, general
1971
Vreme čuda
Fiction, religious
1965
Besnilo
1983

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Borislav Pekić ranks 2,745 out of 7,302. Before him are Gulbadan Begum, Ahmad Javad, Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Pierre Benoit, Shūji Terayama, and Lu Ji. After him are Jan Luyken, Jean Lorrain, Josef Škvorecký, Franz Overbeck, Sogyal Rinpoche, and Zeb-un-Nissa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Borislav Pekić ranks 220. Before him are Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Carmen Sevilla, Leslie Manigat, Donn F. Eisele, Arnaldo Ochoa, and Anerood Jugnauth. After him are Jimmy McLane, José Ramón Machado Ventura, Naomi Shemer, Svatopluk Pluskal, Goro Shimura, and The Big Bopper. Among people deceased in 1992, Borislav Pekić ranks 115. Before him are Franziska Donner, Gaston Reiff, Alex Haley, Robert Morley, László Benedek, and Mohammad Hidayatullah. After him are Joe Shuster, Anthony Dawson, Ernst Schäfer, Gustav Lombard, Farag Foda, and Nie Rongzhen.

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In Montenegro

Among people born in Montenegro, Borislav Pekić ranks 38 out of 142. Before him are Pavle Đurišić (1909), Duško Ivanović (1957), Sava Petrović (1702), Bogdan Tanjević (1947), Prince Mirko of Montenegro (1879), and Branko Kostić (1939). After him are Gjon Buzuku (1499), Danilo, Crown Prince of Montenegro (1871), Miodrag Bulatović (1930), Veselin Vujović (1961), Zdravko Krivokapić (1958), and Sekula Drljević (1884).

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Among WRITERS In Montenegro

Among writers born in Montenegro, Borislav Pekić ranks 2. Before him are Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1813). After him are Miodrag Bulatović (1930), Mirko Kovač (1938), Ćamil Sijarić (1913), Mihailo Lalić (1914), and Stanislava Staša Zajović (1953).

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