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WRITER

Faiz Ahmad Faiz

1911 - 1984

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Faiz Ahmad Faiz (Punjabi, Urdu: فیض احمد فیض, pronounced [fɛːz ɛɦ.məd̪ fɛːz]; 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 today in Pakistan and beyond. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Faiz Ahmad Faiz has received more than 1,540,636 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Faiz Ahmad Faiz is the 3,486th most popular writer (up from 3,844th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 59th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Pakistani Writer.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 3,486 out of 5,755. Before him are Giovanni della Casa, Theodor Plievier, Abu Ali Bal'ami, Carl Bernstein, Koriun, and Grigol Abashidze. After him are Ammonius of Alexandria, Paul Johnson, Giuseppe Parini, Pelagonius, Berdi Kerbabayev, and Herman Wouk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 166. Before him are Gian Carlo Menotti, Arkady Raikin, Kukrit Pramoj, Harry Andrews, Carl Keenan Seyfert, and Mary Blair. After him are Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, Louis Dumont, Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Broderick Crawford, Robert Marchand, and Big Joe Turner. Among people deceased in 1984, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 120. Before him are Louis Lansana Beavogui, Lillian Hellman, Jackie Wilson, Viktor Chukarin, Fazıl Küçük, and Valery Voronin. After him are Blagoje Marjanović, Alice Neel, Hovhannes Shiraz, Gaëtan Dugas, John Marley, and Niyazi.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 53 out of 180. Before him are Nawaz Sharif (1949), Francis Younghusband (1863), Raja Dahir (663), Ustad Ahmad Lahori (1580), Ghulam Ishaq Khan (1915), and Sunil Dutt (1929). After him are Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Tariq Ali (1943), Shehbaz Sharif (1951), and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Faiz Ahmad Faiz ranks 7. Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), and Rahman Baba (1632). After him are Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), Parveen Shakir (1952), and Hamid Mir (1966).

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