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Nâzım Hikmet

1902 - 1963

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Mehmed Nâzım Ran (15 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 586,145 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Nâzım Hikmet is the 352nd most popular writer (down from 310th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Greece (down from 80th in 2019) and the 13th 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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  • 67

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

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  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 352 out of 5,755Before him are Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Paul Éluard, James Fenimore Cooper, Truman Capote, John Keats, and Max Brod. After him are Jacques Prévert, Ahmad Yasawi, Andrzej Sapkowski, Jean Genet, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, and Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 18Before him are Halldór Laxness, Fernand Braudel, Ray Kroc, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Barbara McClintock, and Eugene Wigner. After him are William Wyler, Alfred Kastler, Walter Houser Brattain, Kurt Alder, Josemaría Escrivá, and Arne Tiselius. Among people deceased in 1963, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 15Before him are Robert Schuman, Tristan Tzara, Ngo Dinh Diem, C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, and Paul Hindemith. After him are Francis Poulenc, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, Sylvia Plath, Theodor Heuss, Thích Quảng Đức, and Yasujirō Ozu.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 100 out of 936Before him are Oruç Reis (1473), Cimon (-510), Nestor (null), Irene Papas (1929), Creon (null), and Melissus of Samos (-470). After him are Mahfiruz Hatun (1590), Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt (1789), Phryne (-371), Scopas (-395), John III Doukas Vatatzes (1192), and Necho II (-625).

Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Nâzım Hikmet ranks 13Before him are Pindar (-517), Menander (-342), Nikos Kazantzakis (1883), Alcaeus of Mytilene (-620), Archilochus (-680), and Simonides of Ceos (-556). After him are Arion (-700), Lysias (-445), Phaedrus (-20), Tyrtaeus (-700), Longus (110), and Demetrius Vikelas (1835).