WRITER

Veijo Meri

1928 - 2015

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Veijo Väinö Valvo Meri (31 December 1928 – 21 June 2015) was a Finnish writer. Much of his work focuses on war and its absurdity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veijo Meri has received more than 33,122 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Veijo Meri is the 4,288th most popular writer (up from 4,654th in 2019), the 1,562nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,701st in 2019) and the 198th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Veijo Meri ranks 4,288 out of 7,302. Before him are Johann Christian Günther, Txillardegi, William Boyd, Jakob Hurt, Benoîte Groult, and Leopold Staff. After him are Florbela Espanca, Ibrahim Tuqan, Maeve Binchy, Gervase of Tilbury, Iwan Bloch, and William Trevor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Veijo Meri ranks 352. Before him are António Ribeiro, Giacomo Biffi, Sergey Kapitsa, Elina Bystritskaya, Minas Avetisyan, and Károly Sándor. After him are William Trevor, Dezső Bundzsák, Miguel Poblet, Ruth Westheimer, François Remetter, and Charles David Keeling. Among people deceased in 2015, Veijo Meri ranks 257. Before him are Yogi Berra, László Paskai, Bülent Ulusu, Karl-Erik Palmér, Oleg Bryjak, and Roberto Tucci. After him are Roger Rees, Peter Gay, Anna Kashfi, Claude Criquielion, Geoff Duke, and Mary Ellen Mark.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Veijo Meri ranks 1,562 out of 3,761. Before him are Yuriy Voynov (1931), Klara Rumyanova (1929), Vladimir Lisin (1956), Alexander Gradsky (1949), Nikolai Kamanin (1908), and Marfa Apraksina (1664). After him are Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Nikolay Ilminsky (1822), Vladimir Krutov (1960), Valery Afanassiev (1947), Alexandre Volkoff (1885), and Teresa Feoderovna Ries (1874).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Veijo Meri ranks 198. Before him are Marietta Shaginyan (1888), Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932), Nikolay Mikhaylovsky (1842), Aleksey Koltsov (1809), Guzal Sitdikova (1952), and Vladislav Khodasevich (1886). After him are Osip Brik (1888), Dmitry Furmanov (1891), Daniil Granin (1919), Reinhard Bonnke (1940), Yury Trifonov (1925), and Feodor Gladkov (1883).

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