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Charles Bukowski

1920 - 1994

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Henry Charles Bukowski ( boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Bukowski has received more than 9,074,801 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 70 in 2019). Charles Bukowski is the 120th most popular writer (down from 102nd in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Germany (up from 82nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Writer.

Charles Bukowski is most famous for his autobiographical novels and poetry about the life of a low-income, working-class man.

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  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.68

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  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Charles Bukowski ranks 120 out of 7,302. Before him are E. T. A. Hoffmann, Sully Prudhomme, Federico García Lorca, Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, and Guy de Maupassant. After him are Ivo Andrić, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Vladimir Nabokov, and Paul Verlaine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Charles Bukowski ranks 5. Before him are Pope John Paul II, Federico Fellini, Isaac Asimov, and Yul Brynner. After him are Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Ray Bradbury, Farouk of Egypt, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Paul Celan, and Mario Puzo. Among people deceased in 1994, Charles Bukowski ranks 4. Before him are Richard Nixon, Kim Il-sung, and Karl Popper. After him are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Erich Honecker, Eugène Ionesco, Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Ayrton Senna, Linus Pauling, and Giulietta Masina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charles Bukowski ranks 81 out of 7,253. Before him are Richard Strauss (1864), Friedrich Paulus (1890), Charles the Bald (823), Martin Bormann (1900), Karl Jaspers (1883), and Heinrich Hertz (1857). After him are Arminius (-17), Peter III of Russia (1728), Helmut Kohl (1930), William Herschel (1738), Jürgen Habermas (1929), and Heinz Guderian (1888).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Charles Bukowski ranks 9. Before him are Friedrich Schiller (1759), Hermann Hesse (1877), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), Bertolt Brecht (1898), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898). After him are Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Eckhart Tolle (1948), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), and Jacob Grimm (1785).

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