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Mirjam Pressler

1940 - 2019

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Mirjam Pressler, born Mirjam Gunkel (18 June 1940 – 16 January 2019) was a German novelist and translator. Being the author of more than 30 children's and teenage books, she also translated into German more than 300 works by other writers from Hebrew, English, Dutch and Afrikaans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mirjam Pressler has received more than 25,195 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Mirjam Pressler is the 4,338th most popular writer (down from 3,885th in 2019), the 3,960th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,468th in 2019) and the 259th most popular German Writer.

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  • 25k

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  • 47.58

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mirjam Pressler ranks 4,338 out of 5,755. Before her are Feodor Gladkov, Constantin Negruzzi, Hanna Krall, Yuri Bondarev, Polydore Vergil, and Bob Shaw. After her are Kamala Surayya, Vittorio Messori, Chaim Potok, John Mawe, Richard Steele, and Isaac Watts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Mirjam Pressler ranks 326. Before her are Farooq Leghari, Léon Semmeling, Claire Bretécher, Frankie Avalon, Robby Müller, and Robert Blust. After her are Jacques Higelin, Silvester Takač, José de Anchieta Fontana, Wolf Kahler, Alain Calmat, and Fakhruddin Ahmed. Among people deceased in 2019, Mirjam Pressler ranks 279. Before her are John Tate, Mark Zakharov, Clive Swift, Marlen Khutsiev, Jessica Jaymes, and Michael J. Pollard. After her are Henry E. Holt, Carlo Maria Abate, Rudi Assauer, Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Agustina Bessa-Luís, and Jed Allan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Mirjam Pressler ranks 3,960 out of 6,142. Before her are Eberhard Vogel (1943), Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801), Peter Struck (1943), Iris Berben (1950), Albert Richter (1912), and Rudolf Kittel (1853). After her are Robert Havemann (1910), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973), Thomas Quasthoff (1959), Ernst Albrecht (1907), Adolph Strecker (1822), and Francesca Lebrun (1756).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Mirjam Pressler ranks 259. Before her are Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746), Walter Kempowski (1929), Mato Kósyk (1853), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), and Emanuel Geibel (1815). After her are Fredric Wertham (1895), Peter Scholl-Latour (1924), Johann von Rist (1607), Klaus Groth (1819), Carl Sternheim (1878), and Hilde Domin (1909).

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