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WRITER

Sándor Márai

1900 - 1989

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Sándor Márai (Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈmaːrɒi]; Archaic English name: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Márai has received more than 258,270 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia. Sándor Márai is the 379th most popular writer (up from 406th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Austria (up from 98th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Austrian Writer.

Sándor Márai is most famous for his novel, Embers, which tells the story of a Hungarian family in the aftermath of World War II.

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sándor Márai ranks 379 out of 5,755. Before him are Théophile Gautier, Marguerite Yourcenar, Auguste Escoffier, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Ludovico Ariosto, and Erich von Däniken. After him are Tulsidas, Dan Brown, Jo Nesbø, W. Somerset Maugham, Herta Müller, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Sándor Márai ranks 20. Before him are Vasily Chuikov, Margaret Mitchell, Adolf Dassler, Jacques Prévert, Dennis Gabor, and Charles Francis Richter. After him are Urho Kekkonen, Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, Hans Adolf Krebs, Kurt Weill, and Eyvind Johnson. Among people deceased in 1989, Sándor Márai ranks 23. Before him are Osamu Tezuka, Vladimir Horowitz, Bette Davis, János Kádár, Silvana Mangano, and Dolores Ibárruri. After him are Thomas Bernhard, Hu Yaobang, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, William Shockley, John Hicks, and Hermann Oberth.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Sándor Márai ranks 95 out of 1,237. Before him are Elfriede Jelinek (1946), Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Theodoric the Great (454), Albert II of Germany (1397), Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (1584), and Aribert Heim (1914). After him are Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (1742), Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria (1883), Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738), Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Alma Mahler (1879), and Maximilian Schell (1930).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Sándor Márai ranks 8. Before him are Stefan Zweig (1881), Peter Handke (1942), Peter Drucker (1909), Robert Musil (1880), Arthur Schnitzler (1862), and Elfriede Jelinek (1946). After him are Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888), Paula Hitler (1896), Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874), Georg Trakl (1887), Gustav Meyrink (1868), and Walther von der Vogelweide (1170).

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