WRITER

Cigerxwîn

1903 - 1984

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Cigerxwîn or Cegerxwîn (Northern Kurdish pronunciation: [d͡ʒɪgɛɾxwin]) (Sorani Kurdish: جگەرخوێن) (1903 – 22 October 1984) was a Kurdish writer and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cigerxwîn has received more than 55,599 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Cigerxwîn is the 2,373rd most popular writer (down from 2,154th in 2019), the 616th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 684th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 56k

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  • 54.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cigerxwîn ranks 2,373 out of 7,302Before him are Ulf Stark, António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, Dionysios Solomos, Leonard Woolf, and Edith Hamilton. After him are Jonas Jonasson, Pierre Souvestre, Fredrika Bremer, Neil Postman, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, and Aagje Deken.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Cigerxwîn ranks 123Before him are Hans Litten, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Ma Bufang, Flaminio Bertoni, Steven Runciman, and Candido Portinari. After him are Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Amy Johnson, K. Kamaraj, Boris Blacher, Florence Owens Thompson, and Grigori Aleksandrov. Among people deceased in 1984, Cigerxwîn ranks 86Before him are Vladimir Chelomey, Christa Schroeder, Jean Prouvé, Uladzimir Karatkievich, Ngô Đình Thục, and Baba Sali. After him are Peter Lawford, William Powell, Toni Turek, Karl-August Fagerholm, Alexis Korner, and Aurelio Peccei.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Cigerxwîn ranks 616 out of 1,347Before him are Alexander of Jerusalem (200), Lucia, Countess of Tripoli (1265), Phocylides (-560), Andronikos II of Trebizond (1240), Nicomedes II of Bithynia (-200), and Andronikos III of Trebizond (1310). After him are Manuel II of Trebizond (1324), Zannanza (-1350), Theodora Angelina (1190), Bion of Smyrna (-300), Nureddin Pasha (1873), and John II of Trebizond (1262).

Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Cigerxwîn ranks 67Before him are Michael Choniates (1140), Antimachus (-400), Theodore I (1290), Methodius of Olympus (260), Zabel Yesayan (1878), and Phocylides (-560). After him are Bion of Smyrna (-300), Antiochus Kantemir (1708), Ibn Kemal (1468), Chariton (100), Parthenius of Nicaea (-1), and John of Ephesus (507).