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WRITER

Sachchidananda Vatsyayan

1911 - 1987

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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction, criticism and journalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sachchidananda Vatsyayan has received more than 244,051 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Sachchidananda Vatsyayan is the 3,004th most popular writer (up from 3,243rd in 2019), the 358th most popular biography from India (down from 348th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.97

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  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ranks 3,004 out of 5,755. Before him are Augusto Monterroso, Lars Norén, Yang Jiang, Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Felix Timmermans, and Charles Blanc. After him are Willem Frederik Hermans, Eugène Burnouf, Rolf Hochhuth, Grigore Vieru, Janet Frame, and Anthony Horowitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ranks 141. Before him are Leah Goldberg, Mark Bernes, Allan Pettersson, E. F. Schumacher, George Seaton, and Yang Jiang. After him are Abderrahmane Farès, Nello Pagani, Pierre Harmel, Tilly Fleischer, Juan Carlos Zabala, and René Barjavel. Among people deceased in 1987, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ranks 117. Before him are Bernhard Grzimek, Norman McLaren, Kishore Kumar, James Jesus Angleton, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, and Vicente Calderón. After him are Bengt Strömgren, René Lévesque, Patrick Troughton, Rashid Karami, Donn F. Eisele, and Einar Gerhardsen.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ranks 358 out of 1,493. Before him are Jacques Lauriston (1768), Shashi Kapoor (1938), Kishore Kumar (1929), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Ashapurna Devi (1909), and Sukhdev Thapar (1907). After him are Kiran Bedi (1949), Prakash Raj (1965), Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (700), Vichitravirya (null), Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832), and Vidya Balan (1979).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan ranks 60. Before him are Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), Bhalchandra Nemade (1938), and Ashapurna Devi (1909). After him are Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904), R. K. Narayan (1906), Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894), Shibli Nomani (1857), Ibn Warraq (1946), and Altaf Hussain Hali (1837).

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