WRITER

Sufia Kamal

1911 - 1999

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Begum Sufia Kamal (20 June 1911 – 20 November 1999) was a Bangladeshi poet, feminist leader, and political activist. She took part in the Bengali nationalist movement of the 1950s and civil society leader in independent Bangladesh. She led feminist activism and was a president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sufia Kamal has received more than 192,486 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Sufia Kamal is the 5,156th most popular writer, the 49th most popular biography from Bangladesh and the 9th most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sufia Kamal ranks 5,156 out of 7,302Before her are Adolf Muschg, Aleksey Pleshcheyev, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, Jean Amrouche, Kenjirō Tokutomi, and Dagny Carlsson. After her are Vera Henriksen, Ismat Chughtai, Pieter Jelles Troelstra, José María de Pereda, Hallgrímur Helgason, and Ludwig Thoma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Sufia Kamal ranks 284Before her are Bibi Torriani, Frederick Seitz, Michel Pécheux, Bas Paauwe, Jack Finney, and Sakari Tuomioja. After her are Armandinho, Enric Valor i Vives, Ronnie Rooke, Pritilata Waddedar, Savino Guglielmetti, and Alan Hovhaness. Among people deceased in 1999, Sufia Kamal ranks 212Before her are Owen Hart, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Nikolay Latyshev, Josef Zeman, Celso Torrelio, and Samiha Khalil. After her are Maigonis Valdmanis, Charlie Byrd, Eric Wolf, Vladimir Yashchenko, Yvette Cauchois, and Leonid Sedov.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Sufia Kamal ranks 49 out of 74Before her are Nurul Amin (1893), Suchitra Sen (1931), Allauddin Khan (1881), Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (1916), Bagha Jatin (1879), and Shankha Ghosh (1932). After her are Moudud Ahmed (1940), Pritilata Waddedar (1911), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (1921), Abdul Quader Molla (1948), and A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury (1915).

Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Sufia Kamal ranks 9Before her are Chittaranjan Das (1869), Mahasweta Devi (1926), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Kamini Roy (1864), and Shankha Ghosh (1932). After her are Ahmed Sofa (1943), Avijit Roy (1972), Mamunul Haque (1973), and Monica Ali (1967).