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WRITER

Hermann Kesten

1900 - 1996

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Hermann Kesten (28 January 1900 – 3 May 1996) was a German novelist and dramatist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Kesten has received more than 49,271 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hermann Kesten is the 4,701st most popular writer (down from 3,846th in 2019), the 648th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 498th in 2019) and the 89th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 49k

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  • 46.28

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hermann Kesten ranks 4,701 out of 5,755Before him are Einar Már Guðmundsson, Thomas Dekker, Dany Laferrière, Alexander Vampilov, Ladislav Fuks, and Hamo Sahyan. After him are György Faludy, David Peoples, Göran Tunström, Emil František Burian, Christian Gotthilf Salzmann, and Vesna Parun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hermann Kesten ranks 220Before him are Hyman G. Rickover, Natalio Perinetti, Pierre Braine, Mikel Koliqi, Elizabeth Goudge, and Erna Berger. After him are William Stevenson, Mildred Gillars, Devdas Gandhi, William Haines, Colin Clive, and Mikhail Tikhonravov. Among people deceased in 1996, Hermann Kesten ranks 213Before him are Marin Sorescu, David Tudor, Léon-Étienne Duval, Gesualdo Bufalino, José Lázaro Robles, and N. T. Rama Rao. After him are Birgit Brüel, Anni Steuer, José dos Santos Lopes, Bernhard Klodt, Kusuo Kitamura, and McLean Stevenson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Hermann Kesten ranks 648 out of 1,083Before him are Eduard Bagritsky (1895), Vladimir Muntyan (1946), Yuli-Yoel Edelstein (1958), Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Dmitry Kozak (1958), and Paul A. Baran (1909). After him are Alexander Ostrowski (1893), Henry Roth (1906), Irina Kirichenko (1937), Abraham Lempel (1936), Alexander Brailowsky (1896), and Ivan Kavaleridze (1887).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Hermann Kesten ranks 89Before him are Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Margarita Aliger (1915), Sofia Yablonska (1907), Fedir Bohatyrchuk (1892), Yurii Andrukhovych (1960), and Eduard Bagritsky (1895). After him are Henry Roth (1906), Ivan Kavaleridze (1887), Mark Aldanov (1886), Vladimir Dudintsev (1918), Boris Lavrenyov (1891), and Ariel Durant (1898).