WRITER

Tibor Sekelj

1912 - 1988

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Tibor Sekelj (14 February 1912 – 20 September 1988), also known as Székely Tibor according to Hungarian orthography, was a Hungarian born polyglot, explorer, author, and 'citizen of the world.' In 1986 he was elected a member of the Academy of Esperanto and an honorary member of the World Esperanto Association. Among his novels, travel books and essays, his novella Kumeŭaŭa, la filo de la ĝangalo ("Kumewawa, the son of the jungle"), a children's book about the life of Brazilian Indians, was translated into seventeen languages, and in 1987 it was voted best Children's book in Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tibor Sekelj has received more than 48,032 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Tibor Sekelj is the 839th most popular writer (up from 1,012th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 26th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Slovak Writer.

Tibor sekelj is most famous for being a Yugoslavian spy and the head of the Yugoslavian intelligence service.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 18.07

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  • 1.73

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Notable Works

Viaje fuera del tiempo
1949
Tempestad sobre el Aconcagua
1944
Elpafu la sagon el la bu^sa poezio de la mondo
1983
Por tierras de indios
1946
Odapni strelu put zvezda
1986
Kumeuaua
Esperanto
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tibor Sekelj ranks 839 out of 7,302. Before him are Gerard of Cremona, Bacchylides, Adunis, Dubravka Ugrešić, Thietmar of Merseburg, and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz. After him are Ingeborg Bachmann, Miroslav Krleža, Julian Barnes, Vittoria Colonna, Robert van Gulik, and Heliodorus of Emesa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Tibor Sekelj ranks 42. Before him are Isser Harel, Pierre Boulle, Chien-Shiung Wu, Glenn T. Seaborg, Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland, and Kim Philby. After him are Jozef Gabčík, Otto Ernst Remer, George Emil Palade, Julius Axelrod, Otto Kretschmer, and Ghazi of Iraq. Among people deceased in 1988, Tibor Sekelj ranks 22. Before him are André Frédéric Cournand, Juan Pujol García, Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad, Raymond Carver, John Holmes, and Kim Philby. After him are Felix Wankel, Clifford D. Simak, Virginia Satir, Richard S. Castellano, Hiroaki Sato, and Gert Fröbe.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Tibor Sekelj ranks 20 out of 418. Before him are Ivan Gašparovič (1941), Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Maurice Benyovszky (1746), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), and Vojtech Tuka (1880). After him are Jozef Gabčík (1912), Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880), Zuzana Čaputová (1973), Rudolf Schuster (1934), Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734), and Pribina (800).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Tibor Sekelj ranks 2. Before him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795). After him are Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Bálint Balassi (1554), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Imre Madách (1823), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Lajos Kassák (1887), and Janko Matúška (1821).

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