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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 194,860 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Mark Strand is the 4,910th most popular writer (up from 4,920th in 2019), the 398th most popular biography from Canada (up from 448th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Canadian Writer.

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  • 190k

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  • 45.52

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mark Strand ranks 4,910 out of 5,755Before her are Frano Selak, Lester del Rey, Ring Lardner, Eoin Colfer, Joel Chandler Harris, and Francis de Miomandre. After her are Ōshikōchi no Mitsune, Erik Johan Stagnelius, Alki Zei, Inger Hagerup, Halina Poświatowska, and Majit Gafuri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Mark Strand ranks 361Before her are Martin Bangemann, Michael May, Harrison Birtwistle, Giorgio Bassi, Steve Lacy, and Zacarias Kamwenho. After her are Timothy West, C. N. R. Rao, Hellmuth Karasek, May-Louise Flodin, Adolf Muschg, and Pino Caruso. Among people deceased in 2014, Mark Strand ranks 339Before her are Polly Bergen, Åke Johansson, Mary Anderson, Francisco Gabica, James Brady, and Bruno Zumino. After her are Gyula Török, Angéla Németh, Klas Ingesson, Michio Mado, Piero D'Inzeo, and Levente Lengyel.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Mark Strand ranks 398 out of 1,350Before her are Marie Avgeropoulos (1986), Jacques Parizeau (1930), François Legault (1957), Lochlyn Munro (1966), Monique Mercure (1930), and Heather Menzies (1949). After her are John Stanley Plaskett (1865), Christopher Heyerdahl (1963), Jean-Claude Turcotte (1936), Daniel Lanois (1951), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), and Tony Esposito (1943).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Mark Strand ranks 27Before her are Nancy Huston (1953), Grant Allen (1848), Michel Tremblay (1942), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Duncan Regehr (1952), and Louise Penny (1958). After her are Robert J. Sawyer (1960), Sven Delblanc (1931), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Farley Mowat (1921), George Woodcock (1912), and Justine Musk (1972).