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Jan Kott

1914 - 2001

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Jan Kott (October 27, 1914 – December 22, 2001) was a Polish political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre. A leading proponent of Stalinism in Poland for nearly a decade after the Soviet takeover, Kott renounced his Communist Party membership in 1957 following the anti-Stalinist Polish October of 1956. He defected to the United States in 1965. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Kott has received more than 64,733 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Kott is the 3,931st most popular writer (down from 3,428th in 2019), the 800th most popular biography from Poland (down from 692nd in 2019) and the 100th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Kott ranks 3,931 out of 5,755. Before him are Vladimir Megre, Emmanuel Bove, Yoshiki Tanaka, Justinas Marcinkevičius, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, and Gabriel Chevallier. After him are Marie Marvingt, Richard Hakluyt, Edna Ferber, Elisaveta Bagriana, Wu Jingzi, and Claribel Alegría.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jan Kott ranks 221. Before him are Christl Cranz, Annemarie Selinko, Jijé, Viola Desmond, Carl Scarborough, and Irmã Dulce. After him are Dmitry Lavrinenko, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Afonsinho, Orhan Kemal, Sueo Ōe, and Daniel J. Boorstin. Among people deceased in 2001, Jan Kott ranks 170. Before him are Javier Urruticoechea, Eileen Heckart, Ardito Desio, Robert W. Floyd, Trịnh Công Sơn, and Philippe Léotard. After him are Luis Rijo, Don Bradman, Maria Gorokhovskaya, Oldřich Lajsek, Nam Sung-yong, and Jane Greer.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Kott ranks 800 out of 1,454. Before him are Robert Gadocha (1946), Helena Rakoczy (1921), Władysław Żmuda (1954), Moritz Pasch (1843), Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778), and Ewa Demarczyk (1941). After him are Ingrid van Bergen (1931), Joanna Pacuła (1957), Alfred Pringsheim (1850), Walter Thiel (1910), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), and Arkady Fiedler (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jan Kott ranks 100. Before him are Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Jurek Becker (1937), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Halina Konopacka (1900), and Nathan Alterman (1910). After him are Arkady Fiedler (1894), Arno Holz (1863), Anna Langfus (1920), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), and Willibald Alexis (1798).

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