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Edwin Morgan

1920 - 2010

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Edwin George Morgan (27 April 1920 – 19 August 2010) was a Scottish poet and translator associated with the Scottish Renaissance. He is widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century. In 1999, Morgan was made the first Glasgow Poet Laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Morgan has received more than 16,576 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Edwin Morgan is the 6,987th most popular writer (down from 6,205th in 2019), the 6,674th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,930th in 2019) and the 731st most popular British Writer.

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  • 17k

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  • 44.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Edwin Morgan ranks 6,987 out of 7,302. Before him are Conrad Richter, Delia Grigore, J. Hillis Miller, Zona Gale, Arabella Kiesbauer, and Polina Zherebtsova. After him are Scott Smith, Kossi Efoui, Aravind Adiga, Ruth Ozeki, Dima Khatib, and Robert Olen Butler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Edwin Morgan ranks 465. Before him are Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Constance Moore, Reg Harris, Little Jimmy Dickens, Jerry Maren, and Ram Swarup. After him are Lassie Lou Ahern, Gene Nelson, and David Brinkley. Among people deceased in 2010, Edwin Morgan ranks 490. Before him are Ruth Park, Frances Reid, Aleksander Szczygło, Fatima Meer, Yvette Vickers, and Wayne Collett. After him are William B. Saxbe, Ronnie Clayton, Andrew Koenig, Antonio Pettigrew, Lucille Clifton, and Natalia Lavrova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Morgan ranks 6,674 out of 8,785. Before him are Ian Woosnam (1958), Beryl Reid (1919), Burial (2000), Eddie Clamp (1934), Maurice Setters (1936), and Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield (1950). After him are Hallucinogen (1971), Alan Newton (1931), Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham (1909), Wade Barrett (1980), Richard Ayoade (1977), and Tomás Ó Fiaich (1923).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Edwin Morgan ranks 731. Before him are Tom Rob Smith (1979), Jo Walton (1964), Andrea Levy (1956), Dennis Potter (1935), Anna Burns (1962), and Alice Oseman (1994). After him are Ken MacLeod (1954), Helen Dunmore (1952), Terry Nation (1930), Frances Hardinge (1973), Charlotte Roche (1978), and Sophie Dahl (1977).

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