WRITER

Vasko Popa

1922 - 1991

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Vasile "Vasko" Popa (Serbian Cyrillic: Васко Попа; 29 June 1922 – 5 January 1991) was a Yugoslav poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasko Popa has received more than 100,947 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Vasko Popa is the 2,318th most popular writer (up from 2,492nd in 2019), the 134th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 130th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Serbian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 100k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Uspravna zemlja
1972
Selected poems
Translations into English
1969
Rez
1981
Sporedno nebo
1968
The little box
1970
Poems
Translations into English, Poetry, Serbian poetry
1978

Page views of Vasko Popas by language

Over the past year Vasko Popa has had the most page views in the with 18,284 views, followed by English (11,282), and Serbo-Croatian (4,445). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbo-Croatian (20.59%), Ukrainian (18.34%), and Hungarian (11.37%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasko Popa ranks 2,318 out of 7,302. Before him are Gabriel Matzneff, Berthold Auerbach, Donald Adamson, Wanda Wasilewska, Fujiwara no Teika, and Kerstin Ekman. After him are Sergei Nilus, Nguyễn Du, Xue Tao, Zabel Yesayan, Leah Goldberg, and Emma Jung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Vasko Popa ranks 159. Before him are Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, Anker Jørgensen, Artemio Franchi, Bea Arthur, Niels Holst-Sørensen, and Howard Zinn. After him are Shovkat Alakbarova, Kingsley Amis, Mauro Bolognini, Theo Albrecht, Charles M. Schulz, and Stephen Toulmin. Among people deceased in 1991, Vasko Popa ranks 88. Before him are Daigoro Kondo, Helmut Walcha, Jean Bruller, Ernst Krenek, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Kevin Peter Hall. After him are Shintaro Abe, Heidi Brühl, Richard Thorpe, Otl Aicher, Alex North, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Vasko Popa ranks 134 out of 661. Before him are Milan Stojadinović (1888), Georgios Sinas (1783), Todor Veselinović (1930), Đura Jakšić (1832), Paja Jovanović (1859), and Mirko Cvetković (1950). After him are Momčilo Tapavica (1872), Aleksandar Matanović (1930), Ivo Pogorelić (1958), Slobodan Jovanović (1869), Enki Bilal (1951), and Ceca (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Serbia

Among writers born in Serbia, Vasko Popa ranks 10. Before him are Danilo Kiš (1935), Branislav Nušić (1864), Radoje Domanović (1873), Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833), Desanka Maksimović (1898), and Đura Jakšić (1832). After him are Aleksandar Tišma (1924), Isidora Sekulić (1877), Mika Antić (1932), Laza Lazarević (1851), Jovan Sterija Popović (1806), and Borisav Stanković (1876).

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