WRITER

Hans Erich Nossack

1901 - 1977

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Hans Erich Nossack (30 January 1901 – 2 November 1977) was a German writer. Among his works are Spätestens im November (1955), Der jüngere Bruder (1958) and Ein glücklicher Mensch (1975). In 1961 Nossack was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Erich Nossack has received more than 32,144 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hans Erich Nossack is the 3,023rd most popular writer (up from 3,198th in 2019), the 3,159th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,204th in 2019) and the 194th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hans Erich Nossack ranks 3,023 out of 7,302Before him are Juan Gelman, Åsa Larsson, Bo Carpelan, Antoninus Liberalis, Marius Maximus, and Kjell Askildsen. After him are Michael Jackson, Andrei Amalrik, Yury Olesha, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Donna Tartt, and Jens Baggesen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Hans Erich Nossack ranks 147Before him are Mario Scelba, Yuliya Solntseva, Arleigh Burke, Rose Ausländer, Claude Choules, and Umberto Caligaris. After him are Frank Zamboni, Fernando Tambroni, Sergei Tumansky, Otto Ambros, Daniel-Rops, and Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei. Among people deceased in 1977, Hans Erich Nossack ranks 120Before him are Kōichi Kido, Jan-Carl Raspe, Ronnie Van Zant, Rudolf Vytlačil, E. F. Schumacher, and Isaac Boleslavsky. After him are Sumitranandan Pant, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Bobojon Ghafurov, István Avar, Jean Duvieusart, and Eve Meyer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Erich Nossack ranks 3,159 out of 7,253Before him are Adam Ries (1492), Hugo Eckener (1868), Karl Lehmann (1936), Tanita Tikaram (1969), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), and Philipp von Boeselager (1917). After him are Friedrich Kirchner (1885), Johann Samuel König (1712), Guido Westerwelle (1961), Johann Caspar Kerll (1627), Gertrude of Sulzbach (1114), and John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1700).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Hans Erich Nossack ranks 194Before him are Ricarda Huch (1864), Alfred Andersch (1914), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Picander (1700), Friedrich Wolf (1888), and Richard Dehmel (1863). After him are Arno Schmidt (1914), Elia Levita (1469), Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826), Walter Hasenclever (1890), Christoph Friedrich Nicolai (1733), and Georg Sauerwein (1831).