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 278,765 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yehuda Amichai is the 1,996th most popular writer (up from 2,289th in 2019), the 2,124th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,379th in 2019) and the 129th most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yehuda Amichai ranks 1,996 out of 7,302. Before him are Hanns Heinz Ewers, Lady Randolph Churchill, Vsevolod Garshin, Cornell Woolrich, Jaume Cabré, and Ji Kang. After him are Nicolás Guillén, Countess of Ségur, Jorge Manrique, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Mohamed Choukri, and Joseph Kessel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Yehuda Amichai ranks 123. Before him are Raymond Barre, Geraldine Page, Maria Riva, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Gene Deitch, and Alice Babs. After him are Roland Petit, Dawda Jawara, Rik Van Steenbergen, Bayezid Osman, Neville Marriner, and Georg Ratzinger. Among people deceased in 2000, Yehuda Amichai ranks 80. Before him are Ahmet Kaya, Claude Sautet, Ivan Stambolić, Fulcanelli, Libertad Lamarque, and Andy Hug. After him are Hubert Maga, Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia, José Águas, Patrick O'Brian, Pierre Pflimlin, and Roger Peyrefitte.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Yehuda Amichai ranks 2,124 out of 7,253. Before him are Landgravine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (1627), Edmund Heines (1897), Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony (1730), and Judith of Schweinfurt (1003). After him are Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (1318), Augustus, Grand Duke of Oldenburg (1783), Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794), Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), Hans Richter (1888), and Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria (1795).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Yehuda Amichai ranks 129. Before him are Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797), Handrij Zejler (1804), Wolfgang Borchert (1921), Jordan of Saxony (1190), Margarete Buber-Neumann (1901), and Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871). After him are Rudolf Rocker (1873), Carl Zuckmayer (1896), Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (1773), Joachim Neander (1650), Rahel Varnhagen (1771), and Ludwig Uhland (1787).

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