WRITER

Jaroslav Seifert

1901 - 1986

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Jaroslav Seifert (Czech: [ˈjaroslaf ˈsajfr̩t] ; 23 September 1901 – 10 January 1986) was a Czech writer, poet and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jaroslav Seifert has received more than 183,501 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Jaroslav Seifert is the 572nd most popular writer (up from 688th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 76th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Czech Writer.

Jaroslav Seifert is most famous for being a Czechoslovakian poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1984. He was also a translator and journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Maminka
1954
Všecky krásy světa
1981
Poems
Poetry
A lyrical anthology of poetry by the 1984 Nobel Prize winner presents English translations of poems distinguished by their luminous clarity, directness, unpretentious simplicity, and irony and includes selected passages from Seifert's memoirs
19845 / 5
Ruce Venušiny
1967
Morový sloup
1973
Kamenný most
1944

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 572 out of 7,302. Before him are Faxian, Romain Gary, William S. Burroughs, Al-Zamakhshari, Harry Martinson, and Gaius Julius Hyginus. After him are Laurence Sterne, Denis of Portugal, Sayat-Nova, James Baldwin, Ninon de l'Enclos, and Władysław Reymont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 37. Before him are Ricardo Zamora, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Andrey Vlasov, Henning von Tresckow, Witold Pilecki, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. After him are Milton H. Erickson, Margaret Mead, Robert Bresson, Jascha Heifetz, Nikolai Vatutin, and Henri Lefebvre. Among people deceased in 1986, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 18. Before him are Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, Frank Herbert, Urho Kekkonen, Henry Moore, and Celâl Bayar. After him are Edward Adelbert Doisy, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cary Grant, Albert Szent-Györgyi, James Rainwater, and Fritz Albert Lipmann.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 65 out of 1,200. Before him are Karl Renner (1870), George of Poděbrady (1420), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Franz Werfel (1890), Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787), and Jan Masaryk (1886). After him are Jerome of Prague (1379), Karl Kraus (1874), Lída Baarová (1914), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851), and Bohuslav Martinů (1890).

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Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 11. Before him are Karel Čapek (1890), Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Milena Jesenská (1896), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), and Franz Werfel (1890). After him are Karl Kraus (1874), Julius Fučík (1903), Jan Neruda (1834), Alfred Kubin (1877), Adalbert Stifter (1805), and Cosmas of Prague (1045).

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