WRITER

Sándor Márai

1900 - 1989

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Sándor Márai (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈmaːrɒi]; Archaic English name: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Márai has received more than 279,095 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Sándor Márai is the 392nd most popular writer (down from 378th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Hungary (up from 95th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Hungarian Writer.

Sándor Márai is most famous for his novel, Embers, which tells the story of a Hungarian family in the aftermath of World War II.

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  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sándor Márai ranks 392 out of 7,302. Before him are Einhard, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gregory of Tours, Attar of Nishapur, Alice Munro, and Aulus Cornelius Celsus. After him are Ali-Shir Nava'i, Ghalib, Sándor Petőfi, Erich von Däniken, O. Henry, and Jacques Prévert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Sándor Márai ranks 18. Before him are Adolf Dassler, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Spencer Tracy, and Dennis Gabor. After him are Jacques Prévert, Charles Francis Richter, Urho Kekkonen, Eyvind Johnson, Hans Fritzsche, and Giorgos Seferis. Among people deceased in 1989, Sándor Márai ranks 22. Before him are Lee Van Cleef, János Kádár, Laurence Olivier, Dolores Ibárruri, Vladimir Horowitz, and Graham Chapman. After him are Andrei Gromyko, Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, Ferdinand Marcos, Silvana Mangano, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Sándor Márai ranks 41 out of 1,077. Before him are Johnny Weissmuller (1904), Leo Szilard (1898), László Bíró (1899), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), Sándor Kocsis (1929), and Dennis Gabor (1900). After him are Sándor Petőfi (1823), Zoltán Kodály (1882), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Coloman, King of Hungary (1070), László Kubala (1927), and Imre Lakatos (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Sándor Márai ranks 3. Before him are Theodor Herzl (1860), and Imre Kertész (1929). After him are Sándor Petőfi (1823), Ágota Kristóf (1935), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ferenc Molnár (1878), Felix Salten (1869), Ján Kollár (1793), Ephraim Kishon (1924), Max Nordau (1849), and Nikolaus Lenau (1802).

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