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Peter Pišťanek

1960 - 2015

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Peter Pišťanek (28 April 1960 – 22 March 2015) was a Slovak writer. He began publishing short stories in the 1980s, and his first novel, Rivers of Babylon, came out in 1991. This was adapted into a film of the same name in 1998 by Vladimir Balco. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Pišťanek has received more than 14,330 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Peter Pišťanek is the 6,151st most popular writer (down from 5,451st in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 202nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Slovak Writer.

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  • 36.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Peter Pišťanek ranks 6,151 out of 5,755. Before him are Sherin Khankan, Jérôme Ferrari, John Stossel, Raja Rao, Javier Sicilia, and Roland Schimmelpfennig. After him are Rubén Gallego, Alexandre Jardin, Maylis de Kerangal, Noah Hawley, Bosley Crowther, and Sabine Baring-Gould.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Peter Pišťanek ranks 589. Before him are Robertas Žulpa, Bajram Kosumi, Silk Smitha, Johnny Paul Koroma, Masaaki Yanagishita, and Andrzej Pałasz. After him are Francesca Archibugi, Mariana Constantin, António Leitão, Luis Fortuño, Daniar Usenov, and Marijan Pušnik. Among people deceased in 2015, Peter Pišťanek ranks 475. Before him are Bob Burns, George Clayton Johnson, Philip Levine, Mal Whitfield, Andy Sutcliffe, and Fernando de Araújo. After him are Bud Yorkin, Nek Chand, Jimmy Hill, Richard Corliss, Raúl Héctor Castro, and Sinan Şamil Sam.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Peter Pišťanek ranks 245 out of 357. Before him are Janette Husárová (1974), Ondrej Duda (1994), Barbora Bobuľová (1974), Michal Martikán (1979), Radoslav Zabavník (1980), and Žigmund Pálffy (1972). After him are Róbert Mak (1991), Dominik Hrbatý (1978), Marián Čišovský (1979), Filip Hološko (1984), Tomáš Hubočan (1985), and Juraj Sagan (1988).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Peter Pišťanek ranks 20. Before him are Andrej Sládkovič (1820), Martin Kukučín (1860), Samo Chalupka (1812), Béla Illés (1895), Margita Figuli (1909), and Milan Rúfus (1928).

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