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WRITER

Yehuda Amichai

1924 - 2000

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Yehuda Amichai (Hebrew: יהודה עמיחי; born Ludwig Pfeuffer ‎3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000) was an Israeli poet and author, one of the first to write in colloquial Hebrew in modern times.Amichai was awarded the 1957 Shlonsky Prize, the 1969 Brenner Prize, 1976 Bialik Prize, and 1982 Israel Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yehuda Amichai has received more than 249,791 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Yehuda Amichai is the 2,296th most popular writer (down from 2,056th in 2019), the 2,382nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,097th in 2019) and the 145th most popular German Writer.

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  • 27

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  • 4.41

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  • 2.78

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yehuda Amichai ranks 2,296 out of 5,755Before him are Mir Taqi Mir, Zabel Yesayan, Nikolay Dobrolyubov, Juvencus, Varro Atacinus, and Kató Lomb. After him are Paul Hazard, Dares Phrygius, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, François Hotman, Wolfgang Iser, and Jean Bruller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Yehuda Amichai ranks 142Before him are Alain Bombard, Fess Parker, Raymond Barre, Kim Song-ae, Karlheinz Deschner, and George Mikan. After him are Motoo Kimura, Alexander Matrosov, Marcel Broodthaers, Bayezid Osman, Dinah Washington, and Lefter Küçükandonyadis. Among people deceased in 2000, Yehuda Amichai ranks 92Before him are Pierre Pflimlin, Rabah Bitat, Andy Hug, Baden Powell, Terence McKenna, and Claude Autant-Lara. After him are Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Ahmad Shamlou, Claire Trevor, Ursula Kuczynski, José Águas, and FM-2030.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Yehuda Amichai ranks 2,382 out of 6,142Before him are Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1735), Ludolf von Alvensleben (1901), Johannes Agricola (1494), Friedrich Pollock (1894), Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), and Bodo Illgner (1967). After him are Rudolf Kempe (1910), Ferdinand von Bredow (1884), Michael von Faulhaber (1869), Wolfgang Iser (1926), Peter Schreier (1935), and Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal (1852).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Yehuda Amichai ranks 145Before him are Udo Lindenberg (1946), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), Elisabeth of Schönau (1129), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), Wieland Wagner (1917), and Günter Wallraff (1942). After him are Wolfgang Iser (1926), Rudolf Rocker (1873), Johann Froben (1460), Berthold Auerbach (1812), Waldemar Bonsels (1880), and Unica Zürn (1916).