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WRITER

Panait Istrati

1884 - 1935

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Panait Istrati (Romanian: [panaˈit isˈtrati]; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; August 10, 1884 – April 16, 1935) was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Panait Istrati has received more than 116,340 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Panait Istrati is the 911th most popular writer (up from 959th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Romania (down from 54th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Romanian Writer.

Panait Istrati is most famous for his novel "The Forest Passage" which is a memoir of his time in Russia and Romania.

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  • 120k

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  • 61.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Panait Istrati ranks 911 out of 5,755. Before him are Gregory Skovoroda, Robert van Gulik, Madame de La Fayette, Marie d'Agoult, Georges Bernanos, and Quintus Tullius Cicero. After him are Silius Italicus, Christoph Martin Wieland, Fatema Mernissi, Tao Yuanming, André Bazin, and Bruce Chatwin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Panait Istrati ranks 34. Before him are Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Emil Jannings, Casimir Funk, Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland. After him are Otto Rank, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Gilson, Petru Groza, and Robert J. Flaherty. Among people deceased in 1935, Panait Istrati ranks 30. Before him are Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Henri Pirenne, Josef Suk, Mihajlo Pupin, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. After him are Aron Nimzowitsch, Rashid Rida, Max Liebermann, Magnus Hirschfeld, Johan Halvorsen, and Ali of Hejaz.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Panait Istrati ranks 57 out of 665. Before him are Basarab I of Wallachia (1275), Ilie Năstase (1946), Edward G. Robinson (1893), György Dózsa (1470), Sigismund Báthory (1572), and Traian Băsescu (1951). After him are Mihnea cel Rău (1462), David Wechsler (1896), Ion Ivanovici (1845), Elisabeth of Romania (1894), Ana Pauker (1893), and Mircea II of Wallachia (1422).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Panait Istrati ranks 9. Before him are Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), Elie Wiesel (1928), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), and Dimitrie Cantemir (1673). After him are Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), and Miklós Nyiszli (1901).

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