WRITER

Shota Rustaveli

1172 - 1216

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Shota Rustaveli (Georgian: შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shota Rustaveli has received more than 296,076 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Shota Rustaveli is the 256th most popular writer (up from 279th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Georgia (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Georgian Writer.

Shotar Rustaveli is most famous for writing the epic poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" in the 11th century.

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  • 300k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Shota Rustaveli ranks 256 out of 7,302. Before him are Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Peter Handke, Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, François Mauriac, and Anna Akhmatova. After him are Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sallust, Johannes V. Jensen, Svetlana Alliluyeva, and Vladimir Mayakovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1172, Shota Rustaveli ranks 1. After him are Baldwin I, Latin Emperor, Isabella I of Jerusalem, Aimery of Cyprus, Bohemond IV of Antioch, Louis I, Count of Blois, and Abraham of Smolensk. Among people deceased in 1216, Shota Rustaveli ranks 3. Before him are Pope Innocent III, and John, King of England. After him are Eric X of Sweden, Henry of Flanders, Kamo no Chōmei, Ida, Countess of Boulogne, Robert de Clari, and Theodore II of Constantinople.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Shota Rustaveli ranks 6 out of 406. Before him are Joseph Stalin (1879), Attila (406), Darius the Great (-550), Aram Khachaturian (1903), and Eduard Shevardnadze (1928). After him are Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893), Tamar of Georgia (1166), Yakov Dzhugashvili (1907), Tigran Petrosian (1929), Zviad Gamsakhurdia (1939), and Sergei Parajanov (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Georgia

Among writers born in Georgia, Shota Rustaveli ranks 1. After him are Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893), Sayat-Nova (1712), 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).

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