1925 - 2019
Krishna Sobti (18 February 1925 – 25 January 2019) was an Indian Hindi-language fiction writer and essayist. She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1980 for her novel Zindaginama and in 1996, was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, the highest award of the Akademi. In 2017, she received the Jnanpith Award for her contribution to Indian literature.Sobti is best known for her 1966 novel Mitro Marajani, an unapologetic portrayal of a married woman's sexuality. She was also the recipient of the first Katha Chudamani Award, in 1999, for Lifetime Literary Achievement, apart from winning the Shiromani Award in 1981, Hindi Academy Award in 1982, Shalaka Award of the Hindi Academy Delhi and in 2008, her novel Samay Sargam was selected for Vyas Samman, instituted by the K. K. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Krishna Sobti has received more than 384,730 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Krishna Sobti is the 2,754th most popular writer (up from 3,412th in 2019), the 43rd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 49th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Pakistani Writer.
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Among writers, Krishna Sobti ranks 2,754 out of 5,755. Before her are Kostis Palamas, Heinrich von Veldeke, Alda Merini, John Wyndham, Gerard Reve, and Étienne Pivert de Senancour. After her are Julius Pomponius Laetus, Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths, Jeff Lindsay, Paul Gallico, Luis Cernuda, and Yuan Mei.
1859 - 1943
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 2,748
1150 - 1184
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 2,749
1931 - 2009
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 2,750
1903 - 1969
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,751
1923 - 2006
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,752
1770 - 1846
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 2,753
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 2,754
1428 - 1498
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 2,755
1759 - 1839
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 2,756
1952 - Present
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 2,757
1897 - 1976
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 2,758
1902 - 1963
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 2,759
1716 - 1798
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 2,760
Among people born in 1925, Krishna Sobti ranks 179. Before her are Farley Granger, Giovanni Spadolini, Julie Harris, Edward Gorey, Michael Dummett, and Serge Dassault. After her are Kalle Svensson, June Whitfield, Klaus Roth, Yuli Daniel, Emilio Eduardo Massera, and Scott Carpenter. Among people deceased in 2019, Krishna Sobti ranks 167. Before her are Jörg Demus, Marie-José Nat, Goro Shimura, Sogyal Rinpoche, Sylvia Miles, and José Luis Brown. After her are Vonda N. McIntyre, Peggy Lipton, Momir Bulatović, Sven Lindqvist, Prosper Grech, and Seymour Cassel.
1925 - 2011
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 173
1925 - 1994
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 174
1925 - 2013
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 175
1925 - 2000
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 176
1925 - 2011
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 177
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 178
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 179
1925 - 2000
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 180
1925 - 2018
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 181
1925 - 2015
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 182
1925 - 1988
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 183
1925 - 2010
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 184
1925 - 2013
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 185
1928 - 2019
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 161
1940 - 2019
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 162
1930 - 2019
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 163
1947 - 2019
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 164
1924 - 2019
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 165
1956 - 2019
HPI: 52.40
Rank: 166
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 167
1948 - 2019
HPI: 52.25
Rank: 168
1946 - 2019
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 169
1956 - 2019
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 170
1932 - 2019
HPI: 52.05
Rank: 171
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.02
Rank: 172
1935 - 2019
HPI: 51.99
Rank: 173
Among people born in Pakistan, Krishna Sobti ranks 43 out of 180. Before her are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Dilip Kumar (1922), Amrita Pritam (1919), Taxiles (-400), Milkha Singh (1935), and Yahya Khan (1914). After her are Lokaksema (147), Rahman Baba (1632), I. K. Gujral (1919), Nawaz Sharif (1949), Francis Younghusband (1863), and Raja Dahir (663).
1955 - Present
HPI: 54.56
Rank: 37
1922 - 2021
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 38
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 39
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 40
1935 - 2021
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 41
1914 - 1980
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 42
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 43
147 - 200
HPI: 52.06
Rank: 44
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 45
1919 - 2012
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 46
1949 - Present
HPI: 51.33
Rank: 47
1863 - 1942
HPI: 51.14
Rank: 48
663 - 712
HPI: 51.11
Rank: 49
Among writers born in Pakistan, Krishna Sobti ranks 5. Before her are Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Vasubandhu (400), Khushal Khattak (1613), and Amrita Pritam (1919). After her are Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 1
400 - 400
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 2
1613 - 1689
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 3
1919 - 2005
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 4
1925 - 2019
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 5
1632 - 1706
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 6
1911 - 1984
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 7
1943 - Present
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 8
1915 - 2014
HPI: 42.83
Rank: 9
1905 - 2004
HPI: 42.24
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 42.23
Rank: 11
1952 - 1994
HPI: 36.45
Rank: 12