WRITER

Sayat-Nova

1712 - 1795

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Sayat-Nova (Armenian: Սայեաթ-Նովայ (сlassical), Սայաթ-Նովա (reformed); Georgian: საიათნოვა; Azerbaijani: سایات‌نووا; Persian: سایات‌نووا; born Harutyun Sayatyan; 14 June 1712 – 22 September 1795) was an Armenian poet, musician and ashugh, who had compositions in a number of languages. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sayat-Nova has received more than 335,348 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Sayat-Nova is the 575th most popular writer (up from 757th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Georgian Writer.

Sayat-Nova is most famous for his poems that were written in the Azeri language. Sayat-Nova was born in 1714 and died in 1795.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sayat-Nova ranks 575 out of 7,302Before him are Al-Zamakhshari, Harry Martinson, Gaius Julius Hyginus, Jaroslav Seifert, Laurence Sterne, and Denis of Portugal. After him are James Baldwin, Ninon de l'Enclos, Władysław Reymont, Cassiodorus, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and Osip Mandelstam.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Sayat-Nova ranks 6Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Frederick the Great, Count of St. Germain, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, and Francesco Guardi. After him are Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Tokugawa Ieshige, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, and Francesco Algarotti. Among people deceased in 1795, Sayat-Nova ranks 4Before him are Louis XVII of France, Alessandro Cagliostro, and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. After him are François-André Danican Philidor, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Georg Benda, Carl Michael Bellman, Ahilyabai Holkar, Josiah Wedgwood, Charles II August, Duke of Zweibrücken, and Archduke Alexander Leopold of Austria.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Sayat-Nova ranks 16 out of 406Before him are Tigran Petrosian (1929), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), Sergei Parajanov (1924), Niko Pirosmani (1862), David IV of Georgia (1073), and Aleksei Brusilov (1853). After him are Nona Gaprindashvili (1941), Sergo Ordzhonikidze (1886), Mikheil Saakashvili (1967), Sergei Witte (1849), Rusudan of Georgia (1194), and Otar Iosseliani (1934).

Among WRITERS In Georgia

Among writers born in Georgia, Sayat-Nova ranks 3Before him are Shota Rustaveli (1172), and Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893). After him are Ilia Chavchavadze (1837), Pavel Bermondt-Avalov (1877), Boris Akunin (1956), Vazha-Pshavela (1861), Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858), Teimuraz II of Kakheti (1700), Akaki Tsereteli (1840), Nikoloz Baratashvili (1817), and Nodar Dumbadze (1928).