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WRITER

Nagarjun

1911 - 1998

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Vaidyanath Mishra (11 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nagarjun has received more than 343,784 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Nagarjun is the 3,705th most popular writer, the 431st most popular biography from India and the 68th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 340k

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  • 49.51

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nagarjun ranks 3,705 out of 5,755Before him are Frederic W. H. Myers, Krishan Chander, Picander, Marco Girolamo Vida, Andrejs Pumpurs, and Kader Abdolah. After him are Paul Goma, Tariq Ali, Albert Aurier, Auguste Barbier, Donald Barthelme, and Anton Pann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Nagarjun ranks 179Before him are Lee Falk, Viktor Nekrasov, Willem Johan Kolff, Amir Hamzah, Roy Rogers, and Floyd Council. After him are Xiao Hong, Mutara III Rudahigwa, Guido del Mestri, Said Akl, Maurice Schumann, and Gerhard Stöck. Among people deceased in 1998, Nagarjun ranks 151Before him are Gunter d'Alquen, Louis Dumont, Gloria Fuertes, Roy Rogers, Chatichai Choonhavan, and Eva Bartok. After him are Alois Estermann, Lev Dyomin, Ludvík Daněk, Fritz Buchloh, Maurice Schumann, and Julio César Britos.

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In India

Among people born in India, Nagarjun ranks 431 out of 1,493Before him are Kumar Sanu (1957), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Jayalalithaa (1948), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Kamala Nehru (1899), and Krishan Chander (1914). After him are Fathima Beevi (1927), Arundhati Roy (1961), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939), and Prahlad Jani (1929).

Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Nagarjun ranks 68Before him are R. K. Narayan (1906), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Shibli Nomani (1857), Ibn Warraq (1946), Altaf Hussain Hali (1837), and Krishan Chander (1914). After him are Arundhati Roy (1961), Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Yashpal (1903), Nirmal Verma (1929), Mahadev Desai (1892), and Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898).