WRITER

Oles Honchar

1918 - 1995

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Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar (Ukrainian: Оле́сь Тере́нтійович Гонча́р; 3 April 1918 – 14 July 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oles Honchar has received more than 43,558 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Oles Honchar is the 3,257th most popular writer (up from 3,362nd in 2019), the 496th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 474th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 52.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Oles Honchar ranks 3,257 out of 7,302Before him are Manès Sperber, Claude Bourgelat, Kosta Khetagurov, Kan Kikuchi, Gregory Benford, and Jacques Delille. After him are Emile Habibi, R. K. Narayan, Arnošt Muka, Ennio Flaiano, William of Jumièges, and Erich Weinert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Oles Honchar ranks 150Before him are Georgios Rallis, María Mercader, Mehdi Huseynzade, Brenda Milner, Mickey Spillane, and Lucian Pulvermacher. After him are Albert George Wilson, Eric Ericson, Abraham Pais, Iryna Melnykova, Hendrik C. van de Hulst, and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Among people deceased in 1995, Oles Honchar ranks 143Before him are Václav Ježek, Lev Polugaevsky, Gisela Mauermayer, Osvaldo Pugliese, Kukrit Pramoj, and Burl Ives. After him are John Brunner, Dany Robin, Vladimir Ivashov, Ashapurna Devi, Jesús Garay, and Friz Freleng.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Oles Honchar ranks 496 out of 1,365Before him are Ignacy Daszyński (1866), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), Manès Sperber (1905), Levko Lukianenko (1928), Verka Serduchka (1973), and Ivan Bodiul (1917). After him are Mischa Elman (1891), Arseniy Yatsenyuk (1974), Nikolay Shmatko (1943), Aleksei Kapler (1904), Boris Kalamanos (1113), and Igor Moiseyev (1906).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Oles Honchar ranks 67Before him are Demyan Bedny (1883), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), and Manès Sperber (1905). After him are Mykola Khvylovy (1893), Mikhail Koltsov (1898), Lev Nussimbaum (1905), Vladimir Megre (1950), Olena Pchilka (1849), and Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934).