WRITER

Friederike Mayröcker

1924 - 2021

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Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, radio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avant-garde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friederike Mayröcker has received more than 78,963 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Friederike Mayröcker is the 3,773rd most popular writer (down from 3,574th in 2019), the 720th most popular biography from Austria (down from 673rd in 2019) and the 49th most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Friederike Mayröcker ranks 3,773 out of 7,302Before her are Angelo de Gubernatis, Adile Sultan, Brendan Behan, Nick Hornby, Mary Renault, and Ferdinand Freiligrath. After her are Said Akl, Lucrezia Marinella, Jacob of Serugh, Peter Andreas Heiberg, Charles Simon Favart, and Gloria Vanderbilt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Friederike Mayröcker ranks 246Before her are Dodo Abashidze, György Lázár, Luděk Pachman, Azucena Villaflor, Jean-Michel Charlier, and Erik Balling. After her are Gloria Vanderbilt, Jimmy Gardner, Qiao Shi, Janet Frame, Sonny Stitt, and Marcel Domingo. Among people deceased in 2021, Friederike Mayröcker ranks 273Before her are R. Murray Schafer, Willie Garson, Yıldırım Akbulut, Philippe Jaccottet, Verónica Forqué, and Gimax. After her are Pavol Molnár, José Freire Falcão, Jane Powell, C. George Boeree, Akira Miyawaki, and Giuseppe Rotunno.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Friederike Mayröcker ranks 720 out of 1,424Before her are Gerda Lerner (1920), Ernst Jandl (1925), Eva May (1902), Theodor Wagner (1927), Ignaz Holzbauer (1711), and Ludwig Andreas von Khevenhüller (1683). After her are Alfred Berger (1894), Egon Wellesz (1885), František Svoboda (1906), Archduke Friedrich of Austria (1821), Erwin Komenda (1904), and Harald Reinl (1908).

Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Friederike Mayröcker ranks 49Before her are Johannes Mario Simmel (1924), Erich Fried (1921), Nathan Birnbaum (1864), Alfréd Wetzler (1918), Peter Rosegger (1843), and Ernst Jandl (1925). After her are Ceija Stojka (1933), Ludwig Anzengruber (1839), Lajos Bíró (1880), Michael Denis (1729), Berta Zuckerkandl (1864), and René Wellek (1903).