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Constantine P. Cavafy

1863 - 1933

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Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης [ka'vafis]; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria. A major figure of modern Greek literature, he is sometimes considered the most distinguished Greek poet of the 20th century. His works and consciously individual style earned him a place among the most important contributors not only to Greek poetry, but to Western poetry as a whole.Cavafy's poetic canon consists of 154 poems, while dozens more that remained incomplete or in sketch form weren't published until much later. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantine P. Cavafy has received more than 694,095 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Constantine P. Cavafy is the 431st most popular writer (down from 337th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 64th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Egyptian Writer.

Constantine P. Cavafy is most famous for his poem, "Ithaka."

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  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

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  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 431 out of 5,755Before him are Phaedrus, Louis Aragon, Vladimir Vysotsky, Bohumil Hrabal, Ennius, and Louise de La Vallière. After him are Louisa May Alcott, Traudl Junge, Yunus Emre, Tennessee Williams, Patrick Modiano, and Christopher Marlowe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 14Before him are Arthur Henderson, Pietro Mascagni, David Lloyd George, Henry van de Velde, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and George Herbert Mead. After him are Carlos I of Portugal, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Joaquín Sorolla, Vladimir Vernadsky, Austen Chamberlain, and Werner Sombart. Among people deceased in 1933, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 7Before him are Li Ching-Yuen, Clara Zetkin, Calvin Coolidge, Adolf Loos, Faisal I of Iraq, and Mohammed Nadir Shah. After him are 13th Dalai Lama, John Galsworthy, Annie Besant, Sándor Ferenczi, Wilhelm Cuno, and Nikolai Yudenich.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 78 out of 582Before him are Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Pachomius the Great (292), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Psamtik I (-700), Lactantius (250), and Hassan al-Banna (1906). After him are Den (-3000), Isetnofret (-1250), Saint Menas (285), Mohamed Morsi (1951), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), and Saint Sarah (100).

Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Constantine P. Cavafy ranks 7Before him are Naguib Mahfouz (1911), Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876), Sayyid Qutb (1906), Appian (95), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), and Lactantius (250). After him are Athenaeus (200), Claudian (370), Nonnus (500), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Taha Hussein (1889), and Dionysius Thrax (-170).