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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 60,447 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Edvard Kocbek is the 2,666th most popular writer (down from 2,619th in 2019), the 45th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 43rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Slovene Writer.

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  • 52.72

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edvard Kocbek ranks 2,666 out of 5,755Before him are Jack Thayer, Rosika Schwimmer, Petr Chelčický, David C. H. Austin, Alma Karlin, and Steve Berry. After him are Juan Marsé, Gustave Aimard, Aleksandër Stavre Drenova, Erica Jong, Leonid Leonov, and Petter Dass.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Edvard Kocbek ranks 130Before him are Yulii Khariton, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, Helen Kane, Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, and Joseph Schmidt. After him are Cecil Beaton, Edgar P. Jacobs, Chen Boda, Aparicio Méndez, Robert Montgomery, and Walter Heitler. Among people deceased in 1981, Edvard Kocbek ranks 91Before him are Edith Head, Bobby Sands, Ricardo Wolf, Alexander Kotov, Claude Auchinleck, and Jerzy Neyman. After him are Lanza del Vasto, Mohammad Beheshti, Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia, Mohammad-Javad Bahonar, Jean Eustache, and Mariama Bâ.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Edvard Kocbek ranks 45 out of 295Before him are Max Fabiani (1865), Ivana Kobilca (1861), Milan Vidmar (1885), Srečko Katanec (1963), Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia (1929), and Alma Karlin (1889). After him are Rudolf Maister (1874), Ita Rina (1907), Stanko Vraz (1810), Janko Prunk (1942), Drago Jančar (1948), and Ivan Regen (1868).

Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, Edvard Kocbek ranks 6Before him are France Prešeren (1800), Ivan Cankar (1876), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), and Alma Karlin (1889). After him are Stanko Vraz (1810), Drago Jančar (1948), Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806), Srečko Kosovel (1904), Oton Župančič (1878), and Louis Adamic (1898).