WRITER

Bronisława Wajs

1908 - 1987

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Bronisława Wajs (17 August 1908, Lublin – 8 February 1987, Inowrocław), commonly known by her Romani name Papusza (meaning Doll), was a Polish-Romani classic poet and singer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bronisława Wajs has received more than 66,950 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bronisława Wajs is the 3,157th most popular writer (up from 3,535th in 2019), the 689th most popular biography from Poland (up from 729th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 67k

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  • 52.54

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

ROUTES D'ANTAN - Xargatune droma - Bilingue
Non loin de son campement dans la forêt polonaise, une jeune rromni semble dialoguer avec les oiseaux, les mousses, le ruisseau, les rochers, avec des inflexions saisissantes dans la voix : c'est ce que découvre en 1949 près de Szczecin lors d'une mission de terrain le jeune poète varsovien Jerzy Ficowski. Il va alors encourager Papùsa à consigner par écrit ses improvisations,ce qu'elle fait bien volontiers - écrivant ainsi un chapitre original de la poésie des Rroms.
2011

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bronisława Wajs ranks 3,157 out of 7,302. Before her are Shibli Nomani, Daniel-Rops, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Janosch, Buddhadasa, and Jacob Israël de Haan. After her are Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Jan Gruter, Yasmina Khadra, Henry Kuttner, Uwe Johnson, and Edgar Hilsenrath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Bronisława Wajs ranks 170. Before her are Nikolay Nosov, Baby Face Nelson, Fritz Fischer, Virginia Cherrill, Ho Jong-suk, and René Daumal. After her are Bobojon Ghafurov, Pál Titkos, Jack Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Karl Hohmann, and Héctor Trujillo. Among people deceased in 1987, Bronisława Wajs ranks 115. Before her are Gustav Fröhlich, Adile Naşit, Norman McLaren, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Arkady Raikin, and Georges Franju. After her are René Lévesque, Dmitry Lelyushenko, Patrick Troughton, Bernhard Grzimek, Ivo Lapenna, and Vladimir Basov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Bronisława Wajs ranks 689 out of 1,694. Before her are Otto Finsch (1839), Dorothea of Montau (1347), Louis Marcoussis (1878), Ottomar Anschütz (1846), Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz (1852), and Wojciech Szczęsny (1990). After her are Julie Guicciardi (1782), Leopold Okulicki (1898), Uwe Johnson (1934), August Zaleski (1883), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), and Radosław Sikorski (1963).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Bronisława Wajs ranks 69. Before her are Aleksander Fredro (1793), Alfred Kerr (1867), Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595), Nathan Alterman (1910), Hermann Rauschning (1887), and Maria Dąbrowska (1889). After her are Uwe Johnson (1934), Yakov Perelman (1882), Ernst Wiechert (1887), Halina Konopacka (1900), Stefanie Zweig (1932), and Maria Wirtemberska (1768).

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