WRITER

Ivan Cankar

1876 - 1918

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Ivan Cankar (pronounced [ˈtsaːŋkaɾ], ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Cankar has received more than 153,963 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Cankar is the 1,085th most popular writer (up from 1,134th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Slovenia (up from 16th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovene Writer.

Ivan cankar is most famous for being the first person to swim across the English Channel. This was done in 1908.

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  • 150k

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  • 66.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ivan Cankar ranks 1,085 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfred Thayer Mahan, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Garcilaso de la Vega, Nikolay Nekrasov, John Berger, and Roberto Bolaño. After him are Dylan Thomas, Ruy González de Clavijo, E. M. Forster, Joseph Karo, Nathalie Sarraute, and Pierre Louÿs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Ivan Cankar ranks 40. Before him are John Macleod, Wied, Prince of Albania, Jean Webster, Rodolphe Seeldrayers, Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. After him are Robert Michels, Walter Sydney Adams, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Ziya Gökalp, and Ivan Bilibin. Among people deceased in 1918, Ivan Cankar ranks 48. Before him are Emil Jellinek, Stepan Shaumian, Aleksandr Lyapunov, Julius Wellhausen, Koloman Moser, and Sai Baba of Shirdi. After him are John Bauer, César Ritz, Daniel Burley Woolfall, Vasily Radlov, Charles-Émile Reynaud, and Paul von Rennenkampf.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Ivan Cankar ranks 15 out of 340. Before him are Antonio Abetti (1846), Hemma of Gurk (980), Edvard Kardelj (1910), Franz Miklosich (1813), Janez Drnovšek (1950), and Aleksander Čeferin (1967). After him are Melania Trump (1970), Thomas Luckmann (1927), Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (1827), Jernej Kopitar (1780), Hermann II, Count of Celje (1361), and Carlos, Duke of Madrid (1848).

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Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, Ivan Cankar ranks 2. Before him are France Prešeren (1800). After him are Jernej Kopitar (1780), Alma Karlin (1889), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Drago Jančar (1948), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), Stanko Vraz (1810), Louis Adamic (1898), Valentin Vodnik (1758), and Oton Župančič (1878).

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