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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 of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been translated into more than 50 languages and have sold more than 45 million copies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanisław Lem has received more than 1,653,470 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Stanisław Lem is the 171st most popular writer (up from 201st in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Poland (up from 23rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Writer.

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

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 73.42

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stanisław Lem ranks 171 out of 5,755. Before him are Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Khalil Gibran, Ivan Turgenev, Anacreon, Frank Herbert, and Janusz Korczak. After him are Abu Nuwas, Karel Čapek, J. D. Salinger, Petronius, Lope de Vega, and Diogenes Laërtius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Stanisław Lem ranks 5. Before him are Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Charles Bronson, Alexander Dubček, and Astor Piazzolla. After him are Andrei Sakharov, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Michael I of Romania, Suharto, John Rawls, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, and Yves Montand. Among people deceased in 2006, Stanisław Lem ranks 8. Before him are Augusto Pinochet, Ferenc Puskás, Slobodan Milošević, Milton Friedman, Gerald Ford, and Naguib Mahfouz. After him are Saparmurat Niyazov, James Brown, Desmond Doss, Heinrich Harrer, Alfredo Stroessner, and Philippe Noiret.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stanisław Lem ranks 19 out of 1,454. Before him are Günter Grass (1927), Wernher von Braun (1912), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Manfred von Richthofen (1892), Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686), and Janusz Korczak (1878). After him are Fedor von Bock (1880), Erich Ludendorff (1865), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Władysław Szpilman (1911), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Stanisław Lem ranks 3. Before him are Günter Grass (1927) and Janusz Korczak (1878). After him are Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902), Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Wisława Szymborska (1923), Adam Mickiewicz (1798), Gerhart Hauptmann (1862), Andrzej Sapkowski (1948), Alfred Döblin (1878), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), and Osip Mandelstam (1891).

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