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 52,384 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Hermann Kesten is the 4,660th most popular writer (up from 4,685th in 2019), the 717th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 645th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 52k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hermann Kesten ranks 4,660 out of 7,302. Before him are Constantin Negruzzi, Eudora Welty, Joseph Roumanille, Tatyana Tolstaya, Steven Erikson, and Aelianus Tacticus. After him are Andrej Sládkovič, Svatopluk Čech, Igor Newerly, Vishnu Sharma, Monica Lovinescu, and Zakaria Tamer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hermann Kesten ranks 209. Before him are Hyman G. Rickover, Mica Todorović, Ioannis Andreou, Ioannis Theodoropoulos, Pedro Arispe, and Natalio Perinetti. After him are Delfo Bellini, Taylor Caldwell, Gottfried Haberler, Pedro Ochoa, César Espinoza, and Ivan Kozlovsky. Among people deceased in 1996, Hermann Kesten ranks 213. Before him are Raaj Kumar, Ennio de Giorgi, Ottis Toole, Jon Pertwee, Lola Beltrán, and Pasqualino De Santis. After him are Morton Gould, Gabriel Alonso, Karol Jokl, Vagn Holmboe, Audrey Munson, and Charles Jewtraw.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Hermann Kesten ranks 717 out of 1,365. Before him are Alfred Eisenbeisser (1908), Igor Krutoy (1954), Emanuel Ax (1949), Margarita Aliger (1915), Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (1882), and Stanisław Mazur (1905). After him are Volodymyr Lytvyn (1956), Grigory Shajn (1892), Kateryna Yushchenko (1919), Mykola Zerov (1890), Emma Andijewska (1931), and Serhiy Shaptala (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Hermann Kesten ranks 107. Before him are Sofia Yablonska (1907), Itzik Feffer (1900), Ariel Durant (1898), Mykhaylo Semenko (1892), Alexander Tairov (1885), and Margarita Aliger (1915). After him are Mykola Zerov (1890), Emma Andijewska (1931), Mikhail Kheraskov (1733), Yuriy Fedkovych (1834), Milena Rudnytska (1892), and Eduard Bagritsky (1895).

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