WRITER

Lajos Kassák

1887 - 1967

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Lajos Kassák (March 21, 1887 – July 22, 1967) was a Hungarian poet, novelist, painter, essayist, editor, theoretician of the avant-garde, and occasional translator. He was among the first genuine working-class writers in Hungarian literature. Self-taught, he became a writer within the socialist movement and published journals important to the radical intellectual culture of Budapest in the early 1900s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lajos Kassák has received more than 53,764 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Lajos Kassák is the 4,167th most popular writer (down from 4,035th in 2019), the 146th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 134th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Slovak Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lajos Kassák ranks 4,167 out of 7,302. Before him are Hiromi Kawakami, Antun Gustav Matoš, Hart Crane, Kamini Roy, Mark Aldanov, and Paul Déroulède. After him are Jacqueline de Romilly, Oskar Luts, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Tullio Pinelli, Conrad Aiken, and Vassilis Alexakis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Lajos Kassák ranks 185. Before him are Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Albert Gutterson, Konstantin Kalinin, Yuri Shaporin, Amadeo García, and Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics. After him are Oskar Luts, Waloddi Weibull, Rudolph Lewis, Harold Lockwood, Géza Csáth, and Julius Pokorny. Among people deceased in 1967, Lajos Kassák ranks 170. Before him are Ramón Encinas, Elmer Rice, Oskar Maria Graf, Erick-Oskar Hansen, Ad Reinhardt, and Antonio Riberi. After him are Holcombe Ward, Eddie Tolan, Jobyna Ralston, Ciro Alegría, Henry Luce, and Ann Sheridan.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Lajos Kassák ranks 146 out of 418. Before him are Peter Michal Bohúň (1822), János Bihari (1764), Vladimír Weiss (1964), Anton Malatinský (1920), Paul Kray (1735), and Adriana Karembeu (1971). After him are Eduard Heger (1976), Ľudovít Ódor (1976), János Scitovszky (1785), Vladimír Weiss (1939), Janko Matúška (1821), and Eugen Suchoň (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Lajos Kassák ranks 11. Before him are Bálint Balassi (1554), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), and Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817). After him are Janko Matúška (1821), Janko Kráľ (1822), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Samo Chalupka (1812), Martin Kukučín (1860), and Ján Hollý (1785).

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