WRITER

Nâzım Hikmet

1902 - 1963

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Mehmed Nâzım Ran (17 January 1902 – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet (Turkish: [naːˈzɯm hicˈmet] ), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director, and memoirist. He was acclaimed for the "lyrical flow of his statements". Described as a "romantic communist" and a "romantic revolutionary", he was repeatedly arrested for his political beliefs and spent much of his adult life in prison or in exile. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nâzım Hikmet has received more than 643,859 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia. Nâzım Hikmet is the 340th most popular writer (up from 352nd in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Greece (up from 100th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Greek Writer.

Nâzım Hikmet is most famous for his poetry. He was a Turkish poet, novelist, and communist activist.

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  • 73.87

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  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 340 out of 7,302. Before him are David Woodard, Paul Celan, Paul Éluard, Lorenzo Valla, Wilhelm Grimm, and Callimachus. After him are Doris Lessing, Arthur Schnitzler, Luqman, Henry Miller, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Apollonius of Rhodes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 16. Before him are Isaac Bashevis Singer, Halldór Laxness, Talcott Parsons, Eugene Wigner, Fernand Braudel, and Saud of Saudi Arabia. After him are Alfred Kastler, Kurt Alder, Barbara McClintock, Walter Houser Brattain, Arne Tiselius, and Ray Kroc. Among people deceased in 1963, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 15. Before him are Robert Schuman, Ngo Dinh Diem, Tristan Tzara, C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, and Yasujirō Ozu. After him are Theodor Heuss, Francis Poulenc, Sylvia Plath, Paul Hindemith, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, and Herbert Spencer Gasser.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 92 out of 1,024. Before him are Galla Placidia (388), Giorgio de Chirico (1888), Creon (null), Archilochus (-680), Cimon (-510), and Lysimachus (-361). After him are Dionysius the Areopagite (100), Alexander of Greece (1893), Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789), Simonides of Ceos (-556), Aristides (-550), and Saint Titus (13).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 12. Before him are Sappho (-630), Menander (-342), Pindar (-517), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), and Archilochus (-680). After him are Simonides of Ceos (-556), Arion (-700), Phaedrus (-20), Lysias (-445), Tyrtaeus (-700), and Periander (-700).

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