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Walter Kempowski

1929 - 2007

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Walter Kempowski (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ kɛmˈpɔfskiː] ; 29 April 1929 – 5 October 2007) was a German writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Kempowski has received more than 81,680 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Walter Kempowski is the 4,281st most popular writer (down from 3,568th in 2019), the 3,930th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,293rd in 2019) and the 255th most popular German Writer.

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  • 82k

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  • 47.74

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walter Kempowski ranks 4,281 out of 5,755Before him are José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, C. L. Moore, Jean Tardieu, Jules Lemaître, James Lee Burke, and François Tristan l'Hermite. After him are Anne Carson, Yōko Ogawa, Mato Kósyk, Georges Eekhoud, Pierre Michon, and Elizabeth Gilbert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Walter Kempowski ranks 317Before him are Lyubov Kozyreva, Claude Nougaro, Rudi Glöckner, Francesco Marchisano, Rajkumar, and Jacques Plante. After him are Vyacheslav Ivanov, Chaim Potok, Klara Rumyanova, Héctor Alterio, Dilara Aliyeva, and Henry E. Holt. Among people deceased in 2007, Walter Kempowski ranks 225Before him are Antonio Puerta, Frankie Laine, Ellen Preis, Miyoshi Umeki, Maurice Boitel, and Betty Hutton. After him are László Kovács, Joey Bishop, Helen Walton, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Paek Nam-sun, and Giuseppe Baldo.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Kempowski ranks 3,930 out of 6,142Before him are Johan Zoffany (1733), Yaakov Litzman (1948), Uwe Rahn (1962), Frank Shorter (1947), Elisabeth Schumann (1888), and Michael Gwisdek (1942). After him are Ernst Hoppenberg (1878), Jeri Ryan (1968), Bruno Labbadia (1966), Mato Kósyk (1853), Claudia Pechstein (1972), and Carl Humann (1839).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Walter Kempowski ranks 255Before him are Curt Siodmak (1902), Johann Beckmann (1739), Leopold Andrian (1875), Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (1613), and Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746). After him are Mato Kósyk (1853), Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916), Emanuel Geibel (1815), Mirjam Pressler (1940), Fredric Wertham (1895), and Peter Scholl-Latour (1924).