WRITER

Marin Preda

1922 - 1980

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Marin Preda (Romanian pronunciation: [maˈrin ˈpreda]; 5 August 1922, Siliștea Gumești, Teleorman County, Kingdom of Romania – 16 May 1980, Mogoșoaia, Ilfov County], Socialist Republic of Romania) was a Romanian novelist, post-war writer and director of Cartea Românească publishing house. He is considered by some to be the most important novelist in post-World War II Romanian literature. However, he has also garnered an ambivalent perception in post-socialist Romania: Preda's final novel, Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni ("The Most Beloved of Earthlings"), published just a couple of months before his death, is a daring critique of the beginnings of communism in Romania; in contrast, Preda was well-regarded by party leaders and received high distinctions in socialist Romania, and did not position himself as an open opponent of the regime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marin Preda has received more than 123,629 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Marin Preda is the 5,079th most popular writer, the 388th most popular biography from Romania and the 50th most popular Romanian Writer.

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  • 120k

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  • 54.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marin Preda ranks 5,079 out of 7,302. Before him are Wyndham Lewis, Hermann Kant, František Čelakovský, Mark Dvoretsky, Ghazaros Aghayan, and Leslie Charteris. After him are Olive Schreiner, Júlia Szendrey, Jacques Chessex, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Amitav Ghosh, and Alfhild Agrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Marin Preda ranks 305. Before him are Frédéric Rossif, Frances Spence, Vesna Parun, John Eisenhower, Barbara Hale, and Riccardo Carapellese. After him are Alfred G. Knudson, Božo Broketa, China Zorrilla, Hannelore Schroth, Oscar Pettiford, and Edwin Vásquez. Among people deceased in 1980, Marin Preda ranks 229. Before him are Christian Møller, André Chéron, Adolph Deutsch, Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Zezé Procópio, and Jadwiga Jędrzejowska. After him are Luis Muñoz Marín, Joseph Banks Rhine, Carl Ebert, Clyfford Still, James Smith McDonnell, and Jóhann Hafstein.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Marin Preda ranks 388 out of 844. Before him are Florea Dumitrache (1948), Dezső Bánffy (1843), Corneliu Mănescu (1916), László Lukács (1850), Petre Steinbach (1906), and Ion Agârbiceanu (1882). After him are Lajos Steiner (1903), Ion Andreescu (1850), Florin Gheorghiu (1944), Petre P. Carp (1837), Bogdan Stelea (1967), and Theodor Pallady (1871).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Marin Preda ranks 50. Before him are C. A. Rosetti (1816), Richard Wagner (1952), Gáspár Heltai (1510), Andrei Mureșanu (1816), Marin Sorescu (1936), and Ion Agârbiceanu (1882). After him are Miklós Jósika (1794), George Călinescu (1899), Dan Pagis (1930), László Németh (1901), Ádám Bodor (1936), and Árpád Tóth (1886).

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