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Jonas Mekas

1922 - 2019

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Jonas Mekas (Lithuanian: [ˈjonɐs ˈmækɐs]; December 24, 1922 – January 23, 2019) was a Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema". Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide.Mekas was active in New York City, where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, and the journal Film Culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonas Mekas has received more than 536,720 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jonas Mekas is the 1,836th most popular writer (down from 1,591st in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 41st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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  • 540k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.98

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jonas Mekas ranks 1,836 out of 5,755. Before him are Etel Adnan, Lucinda Riley, Théodore de Banville, Joseph Joubert, Prosper of Aquitaine, and Isaac Casaubon. After him are Maria Shriver, Eino Leino, Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, Surdas, Miklós Nyiszli, and Karin Boye.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Jonas Mekas ranks 121. Before him are Miloš Jakeš, Bea Arthur, Juan Antonio Bardem, Taro Kagawa, Patrick Macnee, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz. After him are Shigeru Mizuki, Pierre Hadot, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Dana Zátopková, Gershon Kingsley, and Leo Tindemans. Among people deceased in 2019, Jonas Mekas ranks 104. Before him are Machiko Kyō, Šaban Šaulić, György Konrád, Peter Mayhew, Billy Drago, and Anatoly Lukyanov. After him are Moshe Arens, Guillermo Mordillo, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Dawda Jawara, Georgiy Daneliya, and Branko Lustig.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Jonas Mekas ranks 46 out of 287. Before him are Boris Skossyreff (1896), Alexander Berkman (1870), Leopold Godowsky (1870), Augustinas Voldemaras (1883), Aaron Klug (1926), and Janusz Radziwiłł (1612). After him are Moshe Arens (1925), Arvydas Sabonis (1964), Bronius Kutavičius (1932), Uljana Semjonova (1952), Birutė (1317), and Sophia of Lithuania (1371).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Jonas Mekas ranks 4. Before him are Czesław Miłosz (1911), Romain Gary (1914), and Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904). After him are Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Tomas Venclova (1937), Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), and Antanas Baranauskas (1835).

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