WRITER

Humayun Ahmed

1948 - 2012

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Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ [ɦumajuːn aɦmed]; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and academic. His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Noroke published in 1972. He wrote over 200 fiction and non-fiction books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Humayun Ahmed has received more than 1,187,216 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Humayun Ahmed is the 3,926th most popular writer, the 34th most popular biography from Bangladesh and the 6th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Humayun Ahmed ranks 3,926 out of 7,302. Before him are Katherine Anne Porter, Taranatha, Moa Martinson, Nuruddin Farah, Elmer Rice, and Max Lange. After him are Dževad Karahasan, Jędrzej Śniadecki, Petko Slaveykov, Betti Alver, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Iraj Mirza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Humayun Ahmed ranks 347. Before him are Arturo Sosa, Stefania Casini, Margaret Weis, Dušan Kovačević, Jim Walton, and Gary Thain. After him are Joaquín Almunia, Susanna Kaysen, Jean-Pierre Monseré, Lojze Peterle, Nate Archibald, and Benny Morris. Among people deceased in 2012, Humayun Ahmed ranks 222. Before him are Francisco Xavier do Amaral, John Hick, Simin Daneshvar, Barry Commoner, Jim Marshall, and Pierre Schoendoerffer. After him are Takeshi Urata, Claude Miller, Ulu Grosbard, Paul Pietsch, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Emmanuel Scheffer.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Humayun Ahmed ranks 34 out of 74. Before him are Mrinal Sen (1923), A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Fakhruddin Ahmed (1940), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), Taslima Nasrin (1962), and Kalpana Datta (1913). After him are Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929), Surya Sen (1894), Kamini Roy (1864), Zainul Abedin (1914), Abdur Rahman Biswas (1926), and Motiur Rahman Nizami (1943).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Humayun Ahmed ranks 6. Before him are Sri Chinmoy (1931), Begum Rokeya (1880), Chittaranjan Das (1869), Mahasweta Devi (1926), and Taslima Nasrin (1962). After him are Kamini Roy (1864), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Sufia Kamal (1911), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Avijit Roy (1972), and Mamunul Haque (1973).

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