WRITER

Saken Seifullin

1894 - 1938

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Saken Seifullin (Kazakh: Сәкен (Сәдуақас) Сейфуллин, Säken (Säduaqas) Seifullin; 15 October 1894 – 25 April 1938) was a pioneer of modern Kazakh literature, poet, writer, and a national activist. He was the founder and the first head of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan. Additionally, he notably contributed in creating controversial literature instigating for independence of Kazakh people from Soviet and Russian oppression. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saken Seifullin has received more than 37,689 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Saken Seifullin is the 2,843rd most popular writer (up from 2,878th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 35th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Kazakhstani Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 38k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Shygharmalar
1972
Stikhotvorenii͡a︡ i poėmy
1958
Ternistyĭ putʹ
Translations into Russian, Kazakh literature
2011
Kȯkshetau
1994
Kȯp tomdyq shygharmalar zhinaghy
Kazakh literature
2004
Ternistyĭ putʹ
History, Fiction
1975

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saken Seifullin ranks 2,843 out of 7,302. Before him are Peter Høeg, Fritz Mauthner, Delmira Agustini, Mariama Bâ, Fatma Aliye Topuz, and Lucius Afranius. After him are Ango Sakaguchi, Farag Foda, Song Yingxing, Guiraut Riquier, Peter Wessel Zapffe, and William L. Shirer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Saken Seifullin ranks 120. Before him are Pavel Rybalko, Riad Al Solh, E. C. Segar, Âşık Veysel, Warren Weaver, and Frans G. Bengtsson. After him are Varvara Stepanova, Elvira Popescu, Augustín Malár, Werner March, Kyuichi Tokuda, and Maksim Purkayev. Among people deceased in 1938, Saken Seifullin ranks 112. Before him are Prince Arthur of Connaught, Prince Johann Georg of Saxony, Gustav Klutsis, Miguel Cabanellas, William Wallace Campbell, and Rudolf Stammler. After him are Ramón Franco, Maurice Emmanuel, Ahn Changho, Branislaw Tarashkyevich, George Ellery Hale, and Rafael Arnaiz Barón.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Saken Seifullin ranks 36 out of 193. Before him are Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev (1823), Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841), Bauyrzhan Momyshuly (1910), Mustafa Shokay (1890), Manshuk Mametova (1922), and Khiuaz Dospanova (1922). After him are Alexander Dutov (1864), Wladimir Klitschko (1976), Vladimir Burtsev (1862), Veniamin Soldatenko (1939), Talgat Musabayev (1951), and Akhmed Zakayev (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Kazakhstan

Among writers born in Kazakhstan, Saken Seifullin ranks 6. Before him are Ahmad Yasawi (1103), Abai Qunanbaiuly (1845), Mukhtar Auezov (1897), Mukaghali Makatayev (1931), and Ybyrai Altynsarin (1841). After him are Vsevolod Ivanov (1895), Alexander Volkov (1891), Alexander Kazantsev (1906), and Sergei Lukyanenko (1968).

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