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WRITER

Laurens van der Post

1906 - 1996

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Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, (13 December 1906 – 15 December 1996) was a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist. He was noted for his interest in Jungianism and the Kalahari Bushmen, his experiences during World War II, as well as his relationships with notable figures such as the future King Charles III and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurens van der Post has received more than 471,909 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Laurens van der Post is the 3,696th most popular writer (down from 3,347th in 2019), the 74th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 65th in 2019) and the 9th most popular South African Writer.

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  • 470k

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  • 49.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laurens van der Post ranks 3,696 out of 5,755. Before him are Otto Ludwig, Günter Eich, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Alexander Kazbegi, Simin Daneshvar, and Maurice Sachs. After him are Jorge Isaacs, Dennis Lehane, Frederic W. H. Myers, Krishan Chander, Picander, and Marco Girolamo Vida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Laurens van der Post ranks 200. Before him are René David, Alex Thépot, Fernando Giudicelli, Renato Cesarini, Max August Zorn, and Maurice Sachs. After him are Roman Karmen, Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Madeleine Carroll, Betti Alver, Walter Legge, and Penn Nouth. Among people deceased in 1996, Laurens van der Post ranks 163. Before him are Kiyoshi Atsumi, Stanko Todorov, Ljuba Welitsch, Imre Kovács, Chen Jingrun, and Danilo Alvim. After him are Alger Hiss, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Mikael Tariverdiev, Juan Hohberg, Gottfried von Einem, and Vagn Holmboe.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Laurens van der Post ranks 74 out of 374. Before him are J. G. Strijdom (1893), Laurence Oliphant (1829), Steve Nash (1974), Nico Diederichs (1903), Ronald Harwood (1934), and Piet Retief (1780). After him are Cecil Kellaway (1890), Evelyn Mase (1922), Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868), Deon Meyer (1958), Oliver Tambo (1917), and Walter Sisulu (1912).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Laurens van der Post ranks 9. Before him are Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), Laurence Oliphant (1829), and Ronald Harwood (1934). After him are Deon Meyer (1958), Alan Paton (1903), Ingrid Jonker (1933), Elisabeth Eybers (1915), Elsa Joubert (1922), and Karel Schoeman (1939).

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