WRITER

Samad Behrangi

1939 - 1967

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Samad Behrangi (Persian: صمد بهرنگی; June 24, 1939 – August 31, 1968) was an Iranian teacher, social activist and critic, folklorist, translator, and short story writer of Iranian Azerbaijani descent. He is famous for his children's books, particularly The Little Black Fish. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samad Behrangi has received more than 104,606 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Samad Behrangi is the 3,760th most popular writer (down from 3,025th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from Iran (down from 263rd in 2019) and the 45th most popular Iranian Writer.

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  • 50.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Samad Behrangi ranks 3,760 out of 7,302. Before him are Judith Gautier, Marilyn French, Edna O'Brien, Pyotr Tkachev, Simin Behbahani, and Rupert Brooke. After him are Yuli Daniel, Chögyam Trungpa, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Alaiza Pashkevich, Dares Phrygius, and Brandon Sanderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Samad Behrangi ranks 284. Before him are Claudette Colvin, Robert Waseige, Peter Revson, Khin Nyunt, Oʻtkir Sultonov, and José Emilio Pacheco. After him are Chögyam Trungpa, Ernesto Castano, Jacques Vallée, Friedel Lutz, Ron Atkinson, and Tetsuya Chiba. Among people deceased in 1967, Samad Behrangi ranks 160. Before him are Carl Schuricht, Siegfried Sassoon, Milán Füst, Gigi Meroni, Gideon Ståhlberg, and Edward Chamberlin. After him are Zhou Zuoren, Vlastimil Kopecký, André Cluytens, Ramón Encinas, Elmer Rice, and Oskar Maria Graf.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Samad Behrangi ranks 330 out of 631. Before him are Navvab Safavi (1924), Jafar Sharif-Emami (1910), Suleiman II of Persia (1714), Al-Nayrizi (865), Nasrin Sotoudeh (1963), and Simin Behbahani (1927). After him are Luarsab II of Kartli (1592), Esmat Dowlatshahi (1904), Ivan Galamian (1903), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (1961), Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (1879), and Kazim Rashti (1793).

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Among WRITERS In Iran

Among writers born in Iran, Samad Behrangi ranks 45. Before him are Mohammad-Taqi Bahar (1886), Mahmoud Shabestari (1288), Azar Nafisi (1955), Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (1923), Ibn Bibi (1250), and Simin Behbahani (1927). After him are Cassandra Clare (1973), Simin Daneshvar (1921), Iraj Mirza (1874), Bahram Beyzai (1938), Bozorg Alavi (1904), and Hushang Ebtehaj (1928).

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