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Elie Wiesel

1928 - 2016

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Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel ( EL-ee vee-ZEL or EE-ly VEE-səl; Yiddish: אליעזר "אלי" װיזל, romanized: Eliezer "Eli" Vizl; September 30, 1928 – July 2, 2016) was a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He authored 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. In his political activities Wiesel became a regular speaker on the subject of the Holocaust and remained a strong defender of human rights during his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elie Wiesel has received more than 6,072,463 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Elie Wiesel is the 519th most popular writer (down from 480th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Romania (down from 28th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Romanian Writer.

Elie Wiesel is most famous for his book Night, which is about his experience in the Holocaust.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 79

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elie Wiesel ranks 519 out of 7,302. Before him are Gabriele Amorth, Isaac Babel, Aulus Gellius, Tom Clancy, Alvin Toffler, and Henry IV of Castile. After him are Marie-Antoine Carême, Tennessee Williams, Premchand, Jostein Gaarder, Harold Pinter, and Jean Paul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Elie Wiesel ranks 30. Before him are Jean-Marie Le Pen, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Shirley Temple, James Coburn, Kim Yong-nam, and Alvin Toffler. After him are Martin Cooper, Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Martin Landau, Alberto Korda, Domenico Modugno, and Peyo. Among people deceased in 2016, Elie Wiesel ranks 29. Before him are Abbas Kiarostami, Jerome Bruner, Nancy Reagan, Bernardo Provenzano, Gabriele Amorth, and Alvin Toffler. After him are Carrie Fisher, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Pierre Boulez, Andrzej Żuławski, Walter Scheel, and Gene Wilder.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 31 out of 844. Before him are Vlad II Dracul (1395), György Ligeti (1923), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Klaus Iohannis (1959), Nadia Comăneci (1961), and Gheorghe Hagi (1965). After him are Michael the Brave (1558), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Álmos (820), George Enescu (1881), Sergiu Celibidache (1912), and Gheorghe Zamfir (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Elie Wiesel ranks 5. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), and Herta Müller (1953). After him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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