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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 175,061 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Jaroslav Seifert is the 689th most popular writer (up from 823rd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 83rd 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.

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  • 180k

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  • 63.88

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  • 80

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 689 out of 5,755Before him are Judah Halevi, Pietro Bembo, Vātsyāyana, Alexander Pope, Max Frisch, and Ninon de l'Enclos. After him are Hugo Ball, Pierre de Ronsard, Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Władysław Reymont, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Neal Cassady.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 45Before him are Henning von Tresckow, Salvatore Quasimodo, Carl Barks, Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Liebehenschel, and Alfred Tarski. After him are Louis Kahn, Henri Lefebvre, José Nasazzi, Lee Strasberg, Zhang Xueliang, and Eisaku Satō. Among people deceased in 1986, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 29Before him are Dmitry Kabalevsky, Benny Goodman, Erich Koch, Edward Adelbert Doisy, James Rainwater, and Chiune Sugihara. After him are Minoru Yamasaki, Georges Dumézil, L. Ron Hubbard, Leonid Kantorovich, Samora Machel, and Stanley Rous.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 76 out of 973Before him are Věra Čáslavská (1942), Matthias Sindelar (1903), Jerome of Prague (1379), Jan Masaryk (1886), Kurt Knispel (1921), and Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679). After him are Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), Johann Stamitz (1717), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Bohuslav Martinů (1890), Johann Palisa (1848), and Jiří Menzel (1938).

Among WRITERS In Czechia

Among writers born in Czechia, Jaroslav Seifert ranks 11Before him are Jaroslav Hašek (1883), Max Brod (1884), Bohumil Hrabal (1914), Milena Jesenská (1896), Franz Werfel (1890), and Karl Kraus (1874). After him are Julius Fučík (1903), Adalbert Stifter (1805), Jan Neruda (1834), Cosmas of Prague (1045), Alfred Kubin (1877), and Josef Čapek (1887).