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Louis Adamic

1898 - 1951

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Louis Adamic (Slovene: Alojzij Adamič; March 23, 1898 – September 4, 1951) was a Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Adamic has received more than 100,877 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Louis Adamic is the 3,563rd most popular writer (up from 3,881st in 2019), the 67th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 61st in 2019) and the 10th most popular Slovene Writer.

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Louis Adamic ranks 3,563 out of 7,302. Before him are Natsuo Kirino, Tōson Shimazaki, Edith Durham, Joss Whedon, Oppian, and Jorge de Montemor. After him are Altaf Hussain Hali, George Gissing, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, Ernst Weiss, Robert Garnier, and Liza Marklund.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Louis Adamic ranks 149. Before him are Lev Knipper, Emmanuel Bove, Alfons Gorbach, Franz Bäke, Vladimir Dekanozov, and Alfred Sauvy. After him are Armand Hammer, Rudolph Maté, Jan Brzechwa, Yitzhak Kaduri, Katarzyna Kobro, and Helene Engelmann. Among people deceased in 1951, Louis Adamic ranks 103. Before him are László Almásy, John Paine, Karl Koller, Henry Taylor, Gustave Sandras, and Angelos Sikelianos. After him are Katarzyna Kobro, Fréhel, Roland Jacobi, Charles Dillon Perrine, Tilemachos Karakalos, and J. C. Leyendecker.

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In Slovenia

Among people born in Slovenia, Louis Adamic ranks 67 out of 340. Before him are Nataša Pirc Musar (1968), Zlatko Zahovič (1971), Jan Oblak (1993), Janko Prunk (1942), Slavko Avsenik (1929), and Miroslav Cerar (1939). After him are Valentin Vodnik (1758), Ivo Daneu (1937), Jurij Dalmatin (1547), Oton Župančič (1878), Srečko Kosovel (1904), and Berta Ambrož (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Slovenia

Among writers born in Slovenia, Louis Adamic ranks 10. Before him are Alma Karlin (1889), Sigismund von Herberstein (1486), Drago Jančar (1948), Edvard Kocbek (1904), Constantin von Wurzbach (1818), and Stanko Vraz (1810). After him are Valentin Vodnik (1758), Oton Župančič (1878), Srečko Kosovel (1904), Adam Bohorič (1520), Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg (1806), and Fran Levstik (1831).

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