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WRITER

Wanda Wasilewska

1905 - 1964

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Wanda Wasilewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈvanda vaɕiˈlɛfska]), also known by her Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (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 112,560 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Wanda Wasilewska is the 2,212th most popular writer (up from 2,591st in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Poland (up from 548th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Polish Writer.

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  • 110k

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  • 54.36

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 2,212 out of 5,755Before her are Judith Kerr, Victorinus of Pettau, Wilhelm Worringer, Heinz G. Konsalik, Juan del Encina, and Indro Montanelli. After her are Malik Muhammad Jayasi, Richard Aldington, Philo of Byblos, Sergei Nilus, Vasily Aksyonov, and Margaret Fuller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 109Before her are Gertrude Ederle, Jean Daniélou, Edgar Snow, Nihal Atsız, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Jan Gies. After her are Karl Rappan, Frits Philips, Alexander Rodimtsev, Pierre Brasseur, Maria von Trapp, and Gerhard Klopfer. Among people deceased in 1964, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 69Before her are Hermann Breith, Flannery O'Connor, Samuil Marshak, Franz Alexander, Julius Raab, and Ben Hecht. After her are Rauf Orbay, Carl Van Vechten, T. H. White, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Pierre Monteux, and Otto Ciliax.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 485 out of 1,454Before her are Gerda Steinhoff (1922), Hugo Haase (1863), Franz Waxman (1906), Sholem Asch (1880), Karl Gützlaff (1803), and Krakus (null). After her are Marek Grechuta (1945), Jan Gotlib Bloch (1836), Duchess Frederica of Württemberg (1765), John Cantius (1390), Kazys Grinius (1866), and Hagen Kleinert (1941).

Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Wanda Wasilewska ranks 50Before her are Israel Joshua Singer (1893), Julian Tuwim (1894), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), Georg Heym (1887), Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868), and Sholem Asch (1880). After her are Stefan Żeromski (1864), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812), Lidia Zamenhof (1904), Hans Hellmut Kirst (1914), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), and Uri Orlev (1931).