WRITER

Gurdial Singh

1933 - 2016

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Gurdial Singh Rahi (Gurdi'āl Sigh; 10 January 1933 – 16 August 2016) was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Punjabi. He started his literary career in 1957 with a short story, "Bhaganwale." He became known as a novelist when he published the novel Marhi Da Deeva in 1964. The novel was later adapted into the Punjabi film Marhi Da Deeva in 1989, directed by Surinder Singh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gurdial Singh has received more than 182,378 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Gurdial Singh is the 5,865th most popular writer (down from 5,210th in 2019), the 768th most popular biography from India (down from 616th in 2019) and the 112th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gurdial Singh ranks 5,865 out of 7,302Before him are José Amador de los Ríos, Tony Hillerman, Malcolm Bradbury, Joan D. Vinge, André Chamson, and Laura Restrepo. After him are Jean-Jacques Schuhl, José Burgos, Archibald MacLeish, Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, John Wain, and José Gil Fortoul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gurdial Singh ranks 446Before him are Yuri Chesnokov, Stefano Rodotà, John Hopfield, Seydou Diarra, Peter Arundell, and Valentina Rastvorova. After him are James Goldsmith, Josef Němec, Sergio Valdés, Scotty Bowman, Jesse Mashburn, and Johnny Unitas. Among people deceased in 2016, Gurdial Singh ranks 455Before him are Hanoi Hannah, Ion Panțuru, Luděk Macela, Solomon Marcus, Allan Williams, and Dan Haggerty. After him are Rafael Iriondo, Fritz Weaver, Gideon Toury, Roberto Lovera, Aage Larsen, and Atilio López.

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In India

Among people born in India, Gurdial Singh ranks 768 out of 1,861Before him are Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Ruskin Bond (1934), Nanda (1939), Mehmood (1932), Sonal Mansingh (1944), and Amit Shah (1964). After him are Shakti Kapoor (1952), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Mammootty (1951), Godfrey Brown (1915), Ajay Banga (1959), and Maneka Gandhi (1956).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Gurdial Singh ranks 112Before him are Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Javed Akhtar (1945), Nambi Narayanan (1941), Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), and Ruskin Bond (1934). After him are Bano Qudsia (1928), Ravindra Kelekar (1925), Vikram Seth (1952), Varsha Adalja (1940), Buddhadeb Dasgupta (1944), and Gita Mehta (1943).