WRITER

Ryszard Kapuściński

1932 - 2007

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Ryszard Kapuściński (Polish: [ˈrɨʂart kapuˈɕt͡ɕij̃skʲi] ; 4 March 1932 – 23 January 2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ryszard Kapuściński has received more than 574,442 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia. Ryszard Kapuściński is the 654th most popular writer (up from 671st in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 16th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Writer.

Ryszard Kapuściński is most famous for his books about his travels in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. He is also known for his book about the Iranian Revolution.

Memorability Metrics

  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ryszard Kapuściński ranks 654 out of 7,302. Before him are Juana Inés de la Cruz, Harper Lee, Martin Amis, Eugène Sue, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Giosuè Carducci. After him are Pietro Metastasio, Ursula K. Le Guin, Camilo José Cela, Washington Irving, Frontinus, and Ian McEwan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Ryszard Kapuściński ranks 36. Before him are Houari Boumédiène, Ellen Burstyn, Melvin Schwartz, Michel Legrand, Sirikit, and Adolfo Suárez. After him are Raisa Gorbacheva, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Zito, Donald Rumsfeld, Valentino, and Roy Scheider. Among people deceased in 2007, Ryszard Kapuściński ranks 20. Before him are Mohammed Zahir Shah, Carlo Ponti, Sidney Sheldon, Benazir Bhutto, Kai Siegbahn, and Maurice Béjart. After him are Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sri Chinmoy, Ernst Otto Fischer, Albert Ellis, Nils Liedholm, and Abdul Rahman Arif.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ryszard Kapuściński ranks 17 out of 368. Before him are Simon Kuznets (1901), Chaim Soutine (1893), Meyer Lansky (1902), Olga Korbut (1955), Zhores Alferov (1930), and Zalman Shazar (1889). After him are Sviatopolk I of Kiev (978), Mstislav I of Kiev (1076), Isser Harel (1912), Yanka Kupala (1882), Ossip Zadkine (1888), and Pavel Sukhoi (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Ryszard Kapuściński ranks 1. After him are Yanka Kupala (1882), Yakub Kolas (1882), Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Vasil Bykaŭ (1924), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), and Bella Rosenfeld (1889).

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