WRITER

Timur Vermes

1967 - Today

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Timur Vermes (born 1967) is a German writer. Previously a ghostwriter, his first novel Er ist wieder da, which has sold over a million copies in Germany, is a satire about Adolf Hitler and 21st-century Germany. The English version, Look Who's Back, was translated by Jamie Bulloch and published by MacLehose Press in April 2014. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Timur Vermes has received more than 138,626 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Timur Vermes is the 5,910th most popular writer (down from 5,401st in 2019), the 5,299th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,591st in 2019) and the 348th most popular German Writer.

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  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Timur Vermes ranks 5,910 out of 7,302. Before him are Clare Hollingworth, André Bjerke, Princess Delphine of Belgium, Walter Abish, Michael Swanwick, and John Green. After him are Isaac D'Israeli, Monika Maron, James Cooke Brown, John Berryman, Brigitte Kronauer, and Júlia Lopes de Almeida.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Timur Vermes ranks 305. Before him are Judd Apatow, Gil Bellows, Oleg Tinkov, Judy Reyes, Brooke Smith, and Collin Chou. After him are Alexander Volkov, Tooru Fujisawa, Benoît Hamon, Luigi Apolloni, Meg Cabot, and DJ Yella.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Timur Vermes ranks 5,299 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Weiss (1863), Sebastian Deisler (1980), Holger Badstuber (1989), Otto Fickeisen (1879), Stefan Schwarzmann (1965), and Dietmar Bartsch (1958). After him are Heinz Wewers (1927), Inge Keller (1923), Rolf-Dieter Heuer (1948), Monika Maron (1941), Hans Liesche (1891), and Kevin Großkreutz (1988).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Timur Vermes ranks 348. Before him are Ulrich Plenzdorf (1934), Irmtraud Morgner (1933), Marina Lewycka (1946), Fredric Wertham (1895), Gert Hofmann (1931), and Wilhelm Genazino (1943). After him are Monika Maron (1941), Brigitte Kronauer (1940), Andreas Eschbach (1959), Daniel Kehlmann (1975), Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920), and Sybille Bedford (1911).

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