WRITER

J. Bernlef

1937 - 2012

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Hendrik Jan Marsman (14 January 1937 – 29 October 2012), better known by his pen name, J. Bernlef, was a Dutch writer, poet, novelist and translator, much of whose work centres on mental perception of reality and its expression. He won numerous literary awards, including the Constantijn Huygens Prize in 1984 and the P. C. Hooft Award in 1994, both of which were for his work as a whole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of J. Bernlef has received more than 44,766 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). J. Bernlef is the 5,471st most popular writer (down from 4,800th in 2019), the 843rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 705th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Dutch Writer.

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  • 45k

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  • 46.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, J. Bernlef ranks 5,471 out of 7,302. Before him are Patricia Wrightson, Emilia Lanier, Gonzalo Rojas, Martin Cruz Smith, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Eva Kotchever. After him are Lev Kassil, Dimitar Dimov, Guido Gozzano, Jan van Beers, Nh. Dini, and Luis Rosales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, J. Bernlef ranks 423. Before him are Duane Jones, George Kerr, Carlo Mattrel, Todd Armstrong, Claude Allègre, and Wilbur Ross. After him are Umyar Mavlikhanov, Lothar Späth, Allen Jones, Anita Desai, Irina Kirichenko, and Fred Akuffo. Among people deceased in 2012, J. Bernlef ranks 348. Before him are Jerzy Kulej, Leon Schlumpf, George Kerr, Jaime Graça, Valeri Vasiliev, and Mehdi Hassan. After him are Patrick Moore, Oswaldo Payá, Clive Dunn, William Grut, Oscar Rossi, and Sergey Nikolsky.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, J. Bernlef ranks 843 out of 1,646. Before him are Tini Wagner (1919), Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn (1612), Kajsa Ollongren (1967), Fedde Schurer (1898), C. B. van Niel (1897), and Lucebert (1924). After him are Jopie Selbach (1918), Wout Weghorst (1992), Maria Vierdag (1905), Catharina Lodders (1942), Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (1881), and Anthony van Hoboken (1887).

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Among WRITERS In Netherlands

Among writers born in Netherlands, J. Bernlef ranks 50. Before him are Henriette Roland Holst (1869), Thea Beckman (1923), Jan de Hartog (1914), Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812), Remco Campert (1929), and Fedde Schurer (1898). After him are Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh (1881), Meindert DeJong (1906), Hendrik Marsman (1899), Guus Kuijer (1942), J. Slauerhoff (1898), and Gerrit Achterberg (1905).

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