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Yaşar Kemal

1923 - 2015

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Yaşar Kemal (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈjaʃar ceˈmal]; born Kemal Sadık Gökçeli; 6 October 1923 – 28 February 2015) was a Turkish writer of Kurdish origin and human rights activist and one of Turkey's leading authors. He received 38 awards during his lifetime and had been a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of Memed, My Hawk. An outspoken intellectual, he often did not hesitate to speak about sensitive issues, especially those concerning the oppression of the Kurdish people. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yaşar Kemal has received more than 208,007 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Yaşar Kemal is the 1,558th most popular writer (down from 1,314th in 2019), the 532nd most popular biography from Turkey (down from 447th in 2019) and the 41st most popular Turkish Writer.

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  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yaşar Kemal ranks 1,558 out of 5,755. Before him are Charles Paul de Kock, Ko Un, Fran Krsto Frankopan, Sabino Arana, Anton Praetorius, and Marcel Aymé. After him are Lewis Mumford, Nicolas-Edme Rétif, Liu Zongyuan, Elizabeth Bishop, Alphonse Allais, and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Yaşar Kemal ranks 87. Before him are Yelena Bonner, Ousmane Sembène, Agatha Barbara, Otfried Preußler, Lucía Hiriart, and Bettie Page. After him are Bob Dole, Rudolph A. Marcus, Zarifa Aliyeva, Gyula Lóránt, Zlatko Čajkovski, and Gloria Grahame. Among people deceased in 2015, Yaşar Kemal ranks 83. Before him are Georges Wolinski, Árpád Göncz, Khaled al-Asaad, Dettmar Cramer, Wayne Dyer, and Cabu. After him are Eldar Ryazanov, Licio Gelli, Ruth Rendell, Chantal Akerman, Akiyuki Nosaka, and Franzl Lang.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Yaşar Kemal ranks 532 out of 1,301. Before him are Yeghishe Charents (1897), Leo the Deacon (950), Nicholas Mystikos (852), Bardas Skleros (1000), Petros Markaris (1937), and Symeon the New Theologian (949). After him are Walter Sydney Adams (1876), Leo V, King of Armenia (1342), Jovan Vladimir (990), Theodore Metochites (1270), Drastamat Kanayan (1884), and Barlaam of Seminara (1290).

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Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Yaşar Kemal ranks 41. Before him are Quintus Smyrnaeus (400), Kâtip Çelebi (1609), Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873), Yeghishe Charents (1897), Petros Markaris (1937), and Symeon the New Theologian (949). After him are Muhammad Said Ramadan al-Bouti (1929), Zeki Müren (1931), Xenophon of Ephesus (101), Nicander (-250), Hipponax (-600), and Alexander Polyhistor (-100).

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