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Tomas Venclova

1937 - Today

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Tomas Venclova (born 11 September 1937) is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tomas Venclova has received more than 64,130 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tomas Venclova is the 2,720th most popular writer (up from 3,006th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 74th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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  • 64k

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  • 52.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tomas Venclova ranks 2,720 out of 5,755. Before him are Abolqasem Lahouti, Anatoly Rybakov, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Mary Mapes Dodge, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, and Max Beerbohm. After him are Brian Herbert, Matthias Claudius, Ibn Manzur, Itzhak Katzenelson, Angela Carter, and Venedikt Yerofeyev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tomas Venclova ranks 189. Before him are André Glucksmann, Chris Bristow, Sofiko Chiaureli, Gordon Milne, Nur Hassan Hussein, and Keiko Abe. After him are Mikheil Meskhi, Armin Hary, Lorraine Gary, Antonio Rattín, Erich Ribbeck, and Barbara Steele.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Tomas Venclova ranks 78 out of 287. Before him are Justas Paleckis (1899), Vincas Kudirka (1858), Kazimira Prunskienė (1943), Bruno Abakanowicz (1852), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), and Yitzhak Arad (1926). After him are Rolandas Paksas (1956), Al Jolson (1886), Joseph Klausner (1874), Yehuda Pen (1854), Antanas Sniečkus (1903), and Klara Zamenhof (1863).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Tomas Venclova ranks 8. Before him are Romain Gary (1914), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Simon Dach (1605), and Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892). After him are Vydūnas (1868), Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Žemaitė (1845), Antanas Baranauskas (1835), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), and Osip Senkovsky (1800).

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