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Bozorg Alavi

1904 - 1997

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Bozorg Alavi (Persian: بزرگ علوی) (February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. He was a founding member of the communist Tudeh Party of Iran in the 1940s and – following the 1953 coup against Premier Mohammad Mossadegh – spent the rest of his life in exile in East Germany, first during the Pahlavi regime, then returning to Germany once more following the 1979 revolution. Cheshm'hā'yash (Her Eyes), which was published in Iran in 1952 and was subsequently banned, is considered his finest novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bozorg Alavi has received more than 71,073 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Bozorg Alavi is the 4,078th most popular writer (down from 3,827th in 2019), the 317th most popular biography from Iran (down from 292nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 71k

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  • 48.38

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bozorg Alavi ranks 4,078 out of 5,755. Before him are Attilâ İlhan, Umihana Čuvidina, Cordwainer Smith, Robert Jungk, Michel Carré, and Guillaume Musso. After him are Willibald Alexis, Gennadius of Massilia, Laura Cereta, E. L. James, Yury Trifonov, and Olivier de Serres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Bozorg Alavi ranks 206. Before him are Joseph Asajiro Satowaki, Tita Merello, Piero Toscani, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Rambai Barni, and Yves Giraud-Cabantous. After him are Ladislav Ženíšek, Ancel Keys, Giuliano Bonfante, Ciriaco Errasti, Andrew Marton, and Jānis Daliņš. Among people deceased in 1997, Bozorg Alavi ranks 180. Before him are Erich Eliskases, Dharamvir Bharati, Amos Tutuola, Afonsinho, Eitel Cantoni, and Edward Osóbka-Morawski. After him are Josef Posipal, Richard Jaeckel, Billy Bremner, Baltazar, John Akii-Bua, and Georges Guétary.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Bozorg Alavi ranks 317 out of 528. Before him are Sami Yusuf (1980), The Iron Sheik (1942), Mohsen Rezaee (1954), Al-Nayrizi (865), Jalil Zandi (1951), and Kazim Rashti (1793). After him are Maryam Rajavi (1953), Jafar Sharif-Emami (1910), Abol-Fath Khan Zand (1755), Mirza Ibrahimov (1911), Haj Ali Razmara (1901), and Esmail Ghaani (1957).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Bozorg Alavi ranks 48. Before him are Simin Behbahani (1927), Simin Daneshvar (1921), Kader Abdolah (1954), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), and Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh (1892). After him are Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1940), Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (1939), Azar Nafisi (1955), Shahrnush Parsipur (1946), Ahmad NikTalab (1934), and Masih Alinejad (1976).

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