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 127,717 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Panait Istrati is the 957th most popular writer (down from 910th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 57th 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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  • 130k

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  • 62.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Le pêcheur d'éponges
1930
Haïdoucs
1929
Œuvres ..
1968
Vers l'autre flamme
1930
Les chardons du Baragan
1928
Russia unveiled
1931

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Panait Istrati ranks 957 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrew of Crete, Johannes Tauler, Patrick White, Sin Saimdang, Alfred Kubin, and George Steiner. After him are Al-Mutanabbi, Ivan Gundulić, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, and Percy Fawcett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Panait Istrati ranks 36. Before him are Edward Sapir, Rudolf Bultmann, Leo Frank, Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, and Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland. After him are Otto Rank, Étienne Gilson, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Petru Groza, Antonín Zápotocký, and Hugo Gernsback. Among people deceased in 1935, Panait Istrati ranks 34. Before him are Ali of Hejaz, Josef Suk, Hugo Junkers, Oda Krohg, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and Johan Halvorsen. After him are John Macleod, Aron Nimzowitsch, Anna Ancher, Paul Bourget, Rashid Rida, and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Panait Istrati ranks 62 out of 844. Before him are György Dózsa (1470), Zoia Ceaușescu (1949), Stephen Bocskai (1557), Chivu Stoica (1908), Henri Coandă (1886), and Ana Pauker (1893). After him are Sigismund Báthory (1572), Elisabeth of Romania (1894), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899), Clara Haskil (1895), and Petre Dumitrescu (1882).

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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), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), and Mihai Eminescu (1850). After him are Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), Ion Creangă (1837), and Miklós Nyiszli (1901).

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