WRITER

Ghassan Kanafani

1936 - 1972

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Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani (Arabic: غسان فايز كنفاني‎; 8 April 1936 – 8 July 1972) was a prominent Palestinian author and politician, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages.Kanafani was born in Acre, Mandatory Palestine in 1936. During the 1948 Palestine war, his family was forced out of their hometown. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ghassan Kanafani has received more than 789,965 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Ghassan Kanafani is the 879th most popular writer (up from 1,521st in 2019), the 109th most popular biography from Israel (up from 137th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Des hommes dans le soleil
1977
Menn under sola og andre palestinske fortellinger
1977
Ard al-burtuqal al-hazin (Nusus wa-qiraat)
2000
Translation of Kanafani's Ma Tabbaqqa Lakum
Faris faris
Arabic literature
1996
Palestine's Children
1984

Page views of Ghassan Kanafanis by language

Over the past year Ghassan Kanafani has had the most page views in the with 287,356 views, followed by Arabic (170,128), and French (19,379). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (102,850.00%), Simple English (429.01%), and English (240.81%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 879 out of 7,302. Before him are Gaius Lucilius, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, Bernhard Schlink, Wilbur Smith, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, and Viktor Shklovsky. After him are Dashiell Hammett, Luis Sepúlveda, Joseph Campbell, Theodoret, Fatema Mernissi, and Marko Marulić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 46. Before him are Gerhard Ertl, Buddy Holly, B. J. Habibie, Günter Blobel, Steve Reich, and Émile Lahoud. After him are Bill Wyman, Raymond Poulidor, Benedict Anderson, Yasuo Fukuda, Roger Whittaker, and Assia Djebar. Among people deceased in 1972, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 29. Before him are Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Andrei Tupolev, Paul-Henri Spaak, Heinrich Lübke, Max Theiler, and Athenagoras I of Constantinople. After him are Georg von Békésy, Emil Maurice, Henri Coandă, Margaret Rutherford, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Jackie Robinson.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 109 out of 466. Before him are Leila Khaled (1944), Yigal Allon (1918), Ofra Haza (1957), Natalie Portman (1981), Itzhak Perlman (1945), and Philip the Tetrarch (-4). After him are Isabella II of Jerusalem (1212), Yair Lapid (1963), Zephaniah (-701), Philip the Evangelist (100), Judah ha-Nasi (135), and Gene Simmons (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Ghassan Kanafani ranks 5. Before him are John the Evangelist (10), Amos Oz (1939), Mahmoud Darwish (1941), and Edward Said (1935). After him are David Grossman (1954), A. B. Yehoshua (1936), May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Justus of Tiberias (35), Meir Shalev (1948), and Gideon Levy (1953).

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