WRITER

Wanda Wasilewska

1905 - 1964

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Wanda Wasilewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvanda vaɕiˈlɛfska]), also known by her Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (‹See Tfd›Russian: Ва́нда Льво́вна Василе́вская) (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist. She was a socialist who became also a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wanda Wasilewska has received more than 118,541 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Wanda Wasilewska is the 2,315th most popular writer (down from 2,205th in 2019), the 529th most popular biography from Poland (down from 485th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Polish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Raduga
1945
Tvory
1966
V Parizhe i vne Parizha
1949
Kogda zagoritsi͡a︡ svet
1947
Rainbow
World War, 1939-1945
1942
Inside the hut
History
1942

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 2,315 out of 7,302. Before her are Indro Montanelli, August Derleth, Uladzimir Karatkievich, Gabriel Matzneff, Berthold Auerbach, and Donald Adamson. After her are Fujiwara no Teika, Kerstin Ekman, Vasko Popa, Sergei Nilus, Nguyễn Du, and Xue Tao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 111. Before her are Franjo Šeper, Alexander Rodimtsev, Giacinto Scelsi, Preguinho, Jean Daniélou, and Karl Guthe Jansky. After her are Martin Gottfried Weiss, Bruno Rossi, Anfilogino Guarisi, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Victor Kravchenko, and Joseph Bonanno. Among people deceased in 1964, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 66. Before her are Pierre Monteux, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Fautrier, Hermann Breith, Samuil Marshak, and Flaminio Bertoni. After her are Carl Van Vechten, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, Julius Raab, Rauf Orbay, T. H. White, and Khawaja Nazimuddin.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 529 out of 1,694. Before her are Nikita Ivanovich Panin (1718), George Adamski (1891), Stefan Żeromski (1864), Helmut Lent (1918), Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), and John Albert Vasa (1612). After her are Bolesław II the Horned (1217), Count Kasimir Felix Badeni (1846), Klaus Roth (1925), Moses Isserles (1520), Joseph Serchuk (1919), and Ferdinand Gregorovius (1821).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 54. Before her are Piotr Skarga (1536), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Maciej Stryjkowski (1547), Israel Joshua Singer (1893), George Adamski (1891), and Stefan Żeromski (1864). After her are Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Isaac Deutscher (1907), and Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914).

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