WRITER

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

1911 - 1984

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated, popular, and influential Urdu writers of his time, and his works and ideas remain widely influential in Pakistan and beyond. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faiz Ahmad Faiz has received more than 1,674,925 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Faiz Ahmad Faiz is the 3,630th most popular writer (down from 3,474th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 3,630 out of 7,302. Before him are Ida Vitale, Nicholas Rémy, Johannes Jørgensen, Kurd Lasswitz, Anthony Berkeley Cox, and Bernhard Severin Ingemann. After him are Vasco Pratolini, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Valentin Vodnik, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, Andrija Kačić Miošić, and Lesches.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 172. Before him are Yang Jiang, Tarō Okamoto, Xiao Hong, Broderick Crawford, Otakar Vávra, and Heinz von Foerster. After him are Klára Dán von Neumann, Nagarjun, Viktor Nekrasov, Hédi Amara Nouira, George Seaton, and Guido del Mestri. Among people deceased in 1984, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 130. Before him are J. B. Priestley, Carl Joachim Friedrich, Manuel Alonso Areizaga, Valery Voronin, Giuseppe Tucci, and K. D. Jadhav. After him are Flora Robson, Gaëtan Dugas, Lillian Hellman, Arvīds Jansons, Lola Anglada, and Roberto Porta.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 59 out of 217. Before him are Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Sunil Dutt (1929), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919), Milkha Singh (1935), and Francis Younghusband (1863). After him are Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), Aafia Siddiqui (1972), Gulzar (1934), Duleep Singh (1838), and Malala Yousafzai (1997).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 9. Before him are Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Bulleh Shah (1680), Rahman Baba (1632), Krishna Sobti (1925), and Tariq Ali (1943). After him are Sultan Bahu (1630), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Khushwant Singh (1915), and Asma Barlas (1950).

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