WRITER

Edvard Kocbek

1904 - 1981

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Edvard Kocbek () (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian Yugoslav poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edvard Kocbek has received more than 0 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Edvard Kocbek is the 2,561st most popular writer (up from 2,656th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 45th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Slovene Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edvard Kocbek ranks 2,561 out of 7,302Before him are Raffi, Giraut de Bornelh, John Barth, David Lodge, Ada Negri, and Karel Jaromír Erben. After him are Nikoloz Baratashvili, Ouida, Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari, Janus Pannonius, John Aubrey, and L. Sprague de Camp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Edvard Kocbek ranks 129Before him are Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Lidia Zamenhof, Max Mallowan, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Joseph Valachi, and Seán MacBride. After him are Helen Kane, Berta Karlik, Edgar P. Jacobs, Attilio Ferraris, Lippo Hertzka, and Antonin Magne. Among people deceased in 1981, Edvard Kocbek ranks 89Before him are Jerzy Neyman, Michele Andreolo, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Ivan Eklind, Edith Head, and Rensis Likert. After him are Mohammad Beheshti, Paul Anspach, Victor Kugler, Carl Ludwig Siegel, Eraldo Monzeglio, and Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Edvard Kocbek ranks 50 out of 340Before him are Drago Jančar (1948), Leon Štukelj (1898), Ivana Kobilca (1861), Ivan Regen (1868), Jakob Lorber (1800), and Anton Janša (1734). After him are Max Fabiani (1865), Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), Sergej Kraigher (1914), Anton Haus (1851), Damir Skomina (1976), and Stanko Vraz (1810).

Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, Edvard Kocbek ranks 7Before him are France Prešeren (1800), Ivan Cankar (1876), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Alma Karlin (1889), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), and Drago Jančar (1948). After him are Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), Stanko Vraz (1810), Louis Adamic (1898), Valentin Vodnik (1758), Oton Župančič (1878), and Srečko Kosovel (1904).