WRITER

Tristan Tzara

1896 - 1963

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Tristan Tzara (French: [tʁistɑ̃ dzaʁa]; Romanian: [trisˈtan ˈt͡sara]; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1896 – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tristan Tzara has received more than 798,078 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Tristan Tzara is the 205th most popular writer (down from 195th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Romania (down from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Writer.

Tristan Tzara is most famous for his Dadaist poems and his co-founding of the Dadaist movement.

Memorability Metrics

  • 800k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 76.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tristan Tzara ranks 205 out of 7,302. Before him are William Blake, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, and Mansur Al-Hallaj. After him are Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, Anacreon, and Johanna Spyri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Tristan Tzara ranks 8. Before him are Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, Imre Nagy, and André Breton. After him are Roman Jakobson, Paula Hitler, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Antonin Artaud, Trygve Lie, and Klement Gottwald. Among people deceased in 1963, Tristan Tzara ranks 11. Before him are Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, and Ngo Dinh Diem. After him are C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, Yasujirō Ozu, Nâzım Hikmet, Theodor Heuss, and Francis Poulenc.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Tristan Tzara ranks 11 out of 844. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Alaric I (376), Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Emil Cioran (1911), and Elena Ceaușescu (1916). After him are Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Ion Antonescu (1882), Mircea Eliade (1907), Theodoric I (393), Leo I the Thracian (401), and Carol II of Romania (1893).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Tristan Tzara ranks 2. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909). After him are Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), Elie Wiesel (1928), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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