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Uri Orlev

1931 - 2022

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Uri Orlev (Hebrew: אורי אורלב; 24 February 1931 – 26 July 2022) born Jerzy Henryk Orłowski, was a Polish-born Israeli children's author and translator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Uri Orlev has received more than 96,696 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Uri Orlev is the 2,456th most popular writer (down from 2,068th in 2019), the 531st most popular biography from Poland (down from 446th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 97k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Uri Orlev ranks 2,456 out of 5,755Before him are Tadeusz Różewicz, Han Suyin, Terry Eagleton, Barbara von Krüdener, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ada Negri. After him are John Barth, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Savitri Devi, Neil Simon, Roberto Calasso, and M. Karunanidhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Uri Orlev ranks 162Before him are Shunsuke Kikuchi, Shintaro Katsu, Cristina Deutekom, George Vassiliou, Atsuko Ikeda, and George Maciunas. After him are Aleksei Gubarev, Guido de Marco, Norberto Boggio, Fred Brooks, Lisbeth Palme, and Moshé Mizrahi. Among people deceased in 2022, Uri Orlev ranks 154Before him are Julio Morales, Nora Nova, Mark Forest, Reine Wisell, Ciriaco De Mita, and David Cox. After him are Carmela Corren, Fred Brooks, Keto Losaberidze, Kay Parker, Bujar Nishani, and Mwai Kibaki.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Uri Orlev ranks 531 out of 1,454Before him are Wolfgang Schmieder (1901), Maryla Rodowicz (1945), Julian Fontana (1810), Emil Leon Post (1897), Józef Brandt (1841), and Tadeusz Różewicz (1921). After him are Olga Boznańska (1865), Shmuel Eisenstadt (1923), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov (1793), Kurt Sanderling (1912), and Isaac Deutscher (1907).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Uri Orlev ranks 56Before him are Wanda Wasilewska (1905), Stefan Żeromski (1864), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), and Tadeusz Różewicz (1921). After him are Isaac Deutscher (1907), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Cyprian Norwid (1821), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595).