WRITER

Dževad Karahasan

1953 - 2023

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Dževad Karahasan (25 January 1953 – 19 May 2023) was a Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dževad Karahasan has received more than 49,010 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dževad Karahasan is the 3,927th most popular writer (up from 4,973rd in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (up from 146th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 49k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Dnevnik melankolije
Essays, Bosnian language materials
2004
O jeziku i strahu
Philology
2007
Knjiga vrtova
Philology
2002
Sara i Serafina
1999
Sarajevo
Bosnian Personal narratives, History
2009
Istočni diwan
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dževad Karahasan ranks 3,927 out of 7,302. Before him are Taranatha, Moa Martinson, Nuruddin Farah, Elmer Rice, Max Lange, and Humayun Ahmed. After him are Jędrzej Śniadecki, Petko Slaveykov, Betti Alver, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Iraj Mirza, and Vasily Trediakovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Dževad Karahasan ranks 224. Before him are Wim Eijk, James Russo, Hwang Woo-suk, Russell Mulcahy, Taryn Power, and Robert Picardo. After him are Stanley Williams, Aleksandr Abdulov, Oliver Ivanović, Elaine Chao, Zoran Lilić, and Gernot Rohr. Among people deceased in 2023, Dževad Karahasan ranks 343. Before him are Guillermo Escalada, Marcos Alonso, Tatjana Patitz, Murtaza Rakhimov, Elisabeth Kopp, and Anderl Molterer. After him are Alain Besançon, Helena Pilejczyk, Abraham Lempel, Alfredo Rojas, Bill Hayden, and Wilferd Madelung.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dževad Karahasan ranks 132 out of 375. Before him are Faruk Hadžibegić (1957), Ilija Pantelić (1942), Branko Đurić (1962), Ivan Ćurković (1944), Mehmed Baždarević (1960), and Blaž Slišković (1959). After him are Andrija Anković (1937), Abaz Arslanagić (1944), Semka Sokolović-Bertok (1935), Hanka Paldum (1956), Marija Pejčinović Burić (1963), and Miroslav Brozović (1917).

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Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dževad Karahasan ranks 13. Before him are Mak Dizdar (1917), Predrag Matvejević (1932), Isak Samokovlija (1889), Abdulah Sidran (1944), Filip Višnjić (1767), and Safvet-beg Bašagić (1870). After him are Staka Skenderova (1828), Miljenko Jergović (1966), Umihana Čuvidina (1794), Semir Osmanagić (1960), Nísia Floresta (1810), and Aleksandar Hemon (1964).

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