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Sapardi Djoko Damono

1940 - 2020

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Sapardi Djoko Damono (20 March 1940 – 19 July 2020) was an Indonesian poet known for lyrical poems, and who was widely regarded as the pioneer of lyrical poetry in Indonesia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sapardi Djoko Damono has received more than 112,489 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Sapardi Djoko Damono is the 5,665th most popular writer (down from 5,173rd in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Indonesia (down from 69th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indonesian Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 52.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sapardi Djoko Damono ranks 5,665 out of 7,302Before him are Layamon, Alfred Capus, Michael Shermer, Nikolay Rubtsov, Jean-Paul Dubois, and Jeanette Winterson. After him are Yakov Polonsky, Paul Arène, H. A. Rey, Kevin Kelly, Mario Luzi, and Edmund White.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Sapardi Djoko Damono ranks 477Before him are Chuck Mangione, Thue Christiansen, Joe Torre, Willi Holdorf, Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo, and Sven-Gunnar Larsson. After him are Edmund White, Nicolae Lupescu, Marco Maciel, Dmitri Prigov, Taylor Wang, and Carol Heiss. Among people deceased in 2020, Sapardi Djoko Damono ranks 552Before him are Francisco Rodríguez Adrados, Abby Dalton, Pedro Pablo León, Willi Holdorf, Giuliana Minuzzo, and Volodymyr Troshkin. After him are Alison Lurie, Stephen F. Cohen, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, and Wolfgang Hofmann.

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In Indonesia

Among people born in Indonesia, Sapardi Djoko Damono ranks 82 out of 158Before him are Adolf van der Voort van Zijp (1892), Adrianus de Jong (1882), Nh. Dini (1936), Agnez Mo (1986), Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo (1950), and Taco (1955). After him are Sri Mulyani (1962), Caesar ten Cate (1890), Jan-Just Bos (1939), Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (1966), Retno Marsudi (1962), and Erick Thohir (1970).

Among WRITERS In Indonesia

Among writers born in Indonesia, Sapardi Djoko Damono ranks 9Before him are Amir Hamzah (1911), Chairil Anwar (1922), Xaviera Hollander (1943), Abdul Muis (1883), Mochtar Lubis (1922), and Nh. Dini (1936). After him are Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana (1908), Jeroen Brouwers (1940), Ayu Utami (1968), and Eka Kurniawan (1975).