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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 50,014 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Lajos Kassák is the 4,048th most popular writer (down from 3,465th in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 109th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Slovak Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lajos Kassák ranks 4,048 out of 5,755Before him are Richard Hughes, Thomas Friedman, Michael Morpurgo, Ari Behn, Teffi, and Anna Gavalda. After him are Bolesław Leśmian, Janko Kráľ, Mary McCarthy, Alexander Galich, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, and Taranatha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Lajos Kassák ranks 172Before him are Maria Jeritza, Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics, Paul W. Merrill, Alan Cunningham, and Jack Conway. After him are Norman L. Bowen, Géza Csáth, Hranush Arshagyan, Joseph Orbeli, Georges Vézina, and Yuri Shaporin. Among people deceased in 1967, Lajos Kassák ranks 167Before him are Daniel Jones, Arthur Ransome, Georges Berger, Oskar Maria Graf, Vlastimil Kopecký, and George S. Robertson. After him are Ann Sheridan, Väinö Kokkinen, Fatima Jinnah, Henry J. Kaiser, Eddie Tolan, and Jaromír Weinberger.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Lajos Kassák ranks 134 out of 357Before him are Ludwig Schlesinger (1864), Peter Machajdík (1961), Janko Matúška (1821), Titus Buberník (1933), Igor Matovič (1973), and Ján Čarnogurský (1944). After him are Janko Kráľ (1822), Ladislav Pavlovič (1926), Ján Cikker (1911), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Eugen Suchoň (1908), and Eduard Heger (1976).

Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Lajos Kassák ranks 12Before him are Vladimír Clementis (1902), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), and Janko Matúška (1821). After him are Janko Kráľ (1822), Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Martin Kukučín (1860), Samo Chalupka (1812), Béla Illés (1895), and Margita Figuli (1909).