WRITER

Mehmed Uzun

1953 - 2007

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Mehmed Uzun (January 1, 1953 – October 10, 2007) was a Kurdish writer and novelist born in Siverek, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Though the Kurdish language was outlawed in Turkey from 1920 to 1990, he started to write in it and achieved much toward shaping a modern Kurdish literary language and reviving the Kurdish tradition of storytelling. In 1977–2005 he lived in exile in Sweden as a political refugee, becoming a prolific writer, author of a dozen Kurdish-language novels and essays, which made him a founding member of Kurdish literature in Kurmanji dialect. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehmed Uzun has received more than 39,625 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mehmed Uzun is the 6,167th most popular writer (down from 5,581st in 2019), the 1,094th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,114th in 2019) and the 141st most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 40k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.96

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mehmed Uzun ranks 6,167 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry Jenkins, Cecelia Ahern, Varsha Adalja, Jun Maeda, Frank Harris, and Barbara Frischmuth. After him are Joyce Cary, Theodore Roethke, Éric Vuillard, Robert Creeley, Philip Massinger, and Paul Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Mehmed Uzun ranks 504. Before him are Vangelis Meimarakis, John Edwards, Ludo Peeters, Mokhtar Naili, Bernt Johansson, and Eiji Ueda. After him are Michelle Hurst, Yekta Uzunoglu, Bobby Rahal, Béla Várady, Arta Dade, and Scott Hicks. Among people deceased in 2007, Mehmed Uzun ranks 366. Before him are Eva Crane, Jean-François Deniau, Kevin DuBrow, Robert Taylor, David Halberstam, and Jeong Da-bin. After him are Alice Ghostley, Andrew Hill, Herb McKenley, Kenji Nagai, Dusty Anderson, and Yelena Romanova.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Mehmed Uzun ranks 1,094 out of 1,347. Before him are Engin Öztürk (1986), Abdullah Avcı (1963), Nevin Çokay (1930), Ruhi Sarıalp (1924), Ayşegül Aldinç (1957), and Çağlar Söyüncü (1996). After him are Yekta Uzunoglu (1953), Theophylact (793), Zehra Güneş (1999), Pelin Karahan (1984), Cengiz Ünder (1997), and Aykut Kocaman (1965).

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Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Mehmed Uzun ranks 141. Before him are Memnon of Heraclea (null), Leyla Erbil (1931), Oktay Rıfat Horozcu (1914), Aurora Mardiganian (1901), Emine Semiye Önasya (1864), and Nedim Gürsel (1951). After him are Akif Pirinçci (1959), Pınar Selek (1971), Zehra Doğan (1989), and İsmail Küçükkaya (1970).

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