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Mark Strand

1934 - 2014

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Mark Strand (April 11, 1934 – November 29, 2014) was a Canadian-born American poet, essayist and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990 and received the Wallace Stevens Award in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Strand has received more than 212,562 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Strand is the 5,878th most popular writer (down from 4,893rd in 2019), the 524th most popular biography from Canada (down from 397th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mark Strand ranks 5,878 out of 7,302. Before her are Isabel-Clara Simó, David Garnett, Justine Siegemund, Patrick Rambaud, Booth Tarkington, and Stephen Leacock. After her are Gen Urobuchi, Johan Sebastian Welhaven, Kazimierz Brodziński, Eric Van Lustbader, R. A. Lafferty, and Lyman Abbott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mark Strand ranks 463. Before her are Ion Panțuru, Timothy West, Jimmy Garrison, Sylvia Syms, Ruskin Bond, and Gerry Hitchens. After her are Hans Mild, Östen Warnerbring, John N. Bahcall, István Csurka, Elías Querejeta, and Ayla Erduran. Among people deceased in 2014, Mark Strand ranks 438. Before her are Ibrahim Touré, Tivadar Monostori, Rik Mayall, Lynsey de Paul, Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, and Holger Hansson. After her are Thomas Berger, Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Toimi Alatalo, Mae Young, Carmen Zapata, and Elizabeth Peña.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mark Strand ranks 524 out of 1,622. Before her are Arturo Gatti (1972), Christy Chung (1970), Betty Taylor (1916), Alessia Cara (1996), Nicholas Lea (1962), and James Arthur (1944). After her are Marcel Dionne (1951), Scotty Bowman (1933), Patrick J. Adams (1981), Gil Bellows (1967), Chris Hadfield (1959), and Sidney Olcott (1872).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Mark Strand ranks 34. Before her are Grant Allen (1848), Justine Musk (1972), Robertson Davies (1913), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Antonine Maillet (1929), and Sven Delblanc (1931). After her are Robert J. Sawyer (1960), Farley Mowat (1921), George Woodcock (1912), John Ralston Saul (1947), Robert Elsie (1950), and Deborah Ellis (1960).

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