WRITER

Saša Stanišić

1978 - Today

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Saša Stanišić (Serbian Cyrillic: Саша Станишић; born 7 March 1978) is a Bosnian-German writer. He was born in Višegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina as the son of a Bosniak mother and a Serbian father. In the spring of 1992, he fled alongside his family to Germany as a refugee of the Bosnian War. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saša Stanišić has received more than 86,202 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Saša Stanišić is the 7,002nd most popular writer (down from 6,212th in 2019), the 283rd most popular biography from Bosnia and Herzegovina (down from 234th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Bosnian, Herzegovinian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 86k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Where You Come From
Fiction
2021
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
Children and war, Fiction, Memory
Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned States and painter of unfinished things. He knows the first chapter of Marx's Das Kapital by heart but spends most of his time playing football in the Bosnian town of Visegrad on the banks of the river Drina. When his grandfather, a master storyteller, dies of the fastest heart attack in the world while watching Carl Lewis's record, Aleksandar promises to carry on the tradition. However when the shadow of war spreads to Visegrad, the world as he knows it stops. Suddenly it is not important how heavy a spider's life weighs, or why Marko's horse is related to Superman. Suddenly it is important to have the right name and to pretend that the little Muslim girl Asija is his sister. Then Aleksandar's parents decide to flee to Germany and he must leave his new friend behind.
2008
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Fiction, war & military, Balkan peninsula, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
2008
Acht Betrachtungen
Art criticism, Addresses, essays, lectures, Art, Modern
Acht junge Autoren reisen nach Frankfurt und besuchen das Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK. Aus über 4.500 Werken der Sammlung entscheiden sie sich für eines. Dann schreiben sie, was sie gesehen haben Sie kommen zurück und stellen ihre Betrachtungen vor. Das vorliegende Werk versammelt die acht ausgewählten Werke aus der Sammlung des MMK sowie Autorenbiografien und -fotos und die Texte der Autoren über die Kunstwerke.
2013
HERKUNFT
2019
Le soldat et le gramophone
Roman historique. Roman personnel.
2008

Page views of Saša Stanišić by language

Over the past year Saša Stanišić has had the most page views in the with 60,307 views, followed by English (10,378), and Serbian (1,581). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Saterland Frisian (69.38%), Ukrainian (58.28%), and Macedonian (50.36%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saša Stanišić ranks 7,002 out of 7,302. Before him are Ken MacLeod, Joaquin Miller, Craig Thomas, Nadia Anjuman, Louisa Lawson, and Justin Raimondo. After him are Merethe Lindstrøm, Dan Savage, Laura Lippman, Edwin O'Connor, Milan Ohnisko, and Patrick Ness.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Saša Stanišić ranks 600. Before him are Elina Danielian, Davor Dominiković, Peter Sunde, Jiří Vaněk, DJ Manian, and Nikki Cox. After him are Masato Uchishiba, Meilen Tu, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Chris Brown, Karla Avelar, and Adalto.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among people born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Saša Stanišić ranks 283 out of 375. Before him are Albert Pobor (1956), Zoran Mikulić (1965), Gordan Vidović (1968), Marija Šestić (1987), Vladimir Radmanović (1980), and Mirza Teletović (1985). After him are Jusuf Nurkić (1994), Božidar Jović (1972), Josip Šutalo (2000), Damir Džumhur (1992), Aida Hadzialic (1987), and Alma Zadić (1984).

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Among WRITERS In Bosnia and Herzegovina

Among writers born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Saša Stanišić ranks 21. Before him are Miljenko Jergović (1966), Umihana Čuvidina (1794), Semir Osmanagić (1960), Nísia Floresta (1810), Aleksandar Hemon (1964), and Zlata Filipović (1980).

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