WRITER

Stanisław Lem

1921 - 2006

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Stanisław Herman Lem (Polish: [staˈɲiswaf ˈlɛm] ; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanisław Lem has received more than 1,771,858 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Stanisław Lem is the 188th most popular writer (down from 171st in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 19th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Stanisław Lem is most famous for his science fiction novels, which are often philosophical and humorous.

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  • 72.92

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  • 78

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Głos pana
1968
Eden
1968
Katar (The Chain of Chance)
1976
Solaris
1962
Dzienniki gwiazdowe
1966
Tales of Pirx the Pilot
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stanisław Lem ranks 188 out of 7,302. Before him are John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, Constantine VII, Tove Jansson, Dale Carnegie, and Murasaki Shikibu. After him are Lope de Vega, Eckhart Tolle, Janusz Korczak, Lu Xun, Al-Masudi, and Friedrich Hölderlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Stanisław Lem ranks 6. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Alexander Dubček, Andrei Sakharov, Michael I of Romania, and Charles Bronson. After him are Suharto, Yves Montand, Astor Piazzolla, Giulietta Masina, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, and John Rawls. Among people deceased in 2006, Stanisław Lem ranks 8. Before him are Augusto Pinochet, Ferenc Puskás, Slobodan Milošević, Gerald Ford, Naguib Mahfouz, and Milton Friedman. After him are James Brown, Philippe Noiret, Syd Barrett, Oriana Fallaci, Alfredo Stroessner, and Saparmurat Niyazov.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Stanisław Lem ranks 18 out of 1,365. Before him are Hafsa Sultan (1479), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Helena Blavatsky (1831), and Svetlana Alexievich (1948). After him are Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Anna Akhmatova (1889), and Viktor Yushchenko (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Stanisław Lem ranks 5. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Joseph Conrad (1857), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Svetlana Alexievich (1948). After him are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), and Lesya Ukrainka (1871).

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