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WRITER

Béla Illés

1895 - 1974

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Béla Illés (Born: Béla Lipner from Kassa, Austria-Hungary; now Košice, Slovakia), March 22, 1895 – Budapest, January 5, 1974) was a Hungarian left-wing writer and journalist who spent much of his life in exile in the Soviet Union. In the now communist Hungary, he was not particularly appreciated by the Minister of Culture, József Révai, nor by György Lukács. However, he was used as a writer of the mass articles glorifying the communist system and the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Illés has received more than 30,381 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Béla Illés is the 4,719th most popular writer (down from 4,274th in 2019), the 162nd most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 140th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Slovak Writer.

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  • 30k

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  • 46.22

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Béla Illés ranks 4,719 out of 5,755Before him are Julia Ward Howe, Daniel Pearl, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Jorge Edwards, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, and Joanna Russ. After him are Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, Henry Roth, Teresa de la Parra, Imants Ziedonis, Wilferd Madelung, and Paco Ignacio Taibo II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Béla Illés ranks 206Before him are Eduard Bagritsky, Louis Raymond, Busby Berkeley, Andreas Alföldi, Johann Nepomuk David, and Vilho Tuulos. After him are H. A. R. Gibb, Eugene Bullard, Fedor Ozep, José Bergamín, Leo Ornstein, and Karel Koželuh. Among people deceased in 1974, Béla Illés ranks 174Before him are Betty Compson, Margit Slachta, Kostas Varnalis, Bobby Timmons, Sergey Urusevsky, and Gheorghe Albu. After him are Konrad Frey, Jacqueline Susann, Mikhail Tikhonravov, Gerhard Lamprecht, Matilde Hidalgo, and Fernand de Montigny.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Béla Illés ranks 162 out of 357Before him are Albín Brunovský (1935), Margit Slachta (1884), Štefan Uher (1930), Jozef Móder (1947), Ján Zachara (1928), and Janko Jesenský (1874). After him are Jozef Čapkovič (1948), Viktor Madarász (1830), Jaroslav Pollák (1947), Jozef Moravčík (1945), Ladislav Petráš (1946), and Ján Švehlík (1950).

Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Béla Illés ranks 17Before him are Janko Matúška (1821), Lajos Kassák (1887), Janko Kráľ (1822), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Martin Kukučín (1860), and Samo Chalupka (1812). After him are Margita Figuli (1909), Milan Rúfus (1928), and Peter Pišťanek (1960).