WRITER

Franz Kafka

1883 - 1924

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was an Austrian-Czech novelist and writer from Prague. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature; he wrote in German. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Kafka has received more than 15,997,991 page views. His biography is available in 165 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 159 in 2019). Franz Kafka is the 14th most popular writer (down from 12th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Czechia (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Czech Writer.

Franz Kafka is most famous for his novels, "The Metamorphosis," "The Trial," and "The Castle."

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 88.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 165

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Franz Kafka ranks 14 out of 7,302. Before him are Lord Byron, Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, and Sophocles. After him are Miguel de Cervantes, Jules Verne, Virgil, Albert Camus, Molière, and Anton Chekhov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Franz Kafka ranks 2. Before him is Benito Mussolini. After him are John Maynard Keynes, Coco Chanel, Karl Jaspers, Walter Gropius, Joseph Schumpeter, Khalil Gibran, Anton Webern, Jaroslav Hašek, Nikos Kazantzakis, and Lev Kamenev. Among people deceased in 1924, Franz Kafka ranks 2. Before him is Vladimir Lenin. After him are Giacomo Puccini, Anatole France, Woodrow Wilson, Joseph Conrad, Louis Sullivan, Alfred Marshall, Gabriel Fauré, Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, Carl Spitteler, and Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Franz Kafka ranks 2 out of 1,200. Before him are Sigmund Freud (1856). After him are Gregor Mendel (1822), Antonín Dvořák (1841), Gustav Mahler (1860), Jan Hus (1369), John Amos Comenius (1592), Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Oskar Schindler (1908), and Bedřich Smetana (1824).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Franz Kafka ranks 1. After him are Milan Kundera (1929), Václav Havel (1936), Rainer Maria Rilke (1875), Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Franz Werfel (1890), Jaroslav Seifert (1901), and Karl Kraus (1874).

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