WRITER

Zbigniew Herbert

1924 - 1998

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Zbigniew Herbert (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈxɛrbɛrt] ; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled Chord of Light was issued in 1956), soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zbigniew Herbert has received more than 214,643 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Zbigniew Herbert is the 1,861st most popular writer (up from 2,108th in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 297th in 2019) and the 38th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 1,861 out of 7,302. Before him are Anne Sexton, William Moulton Marston, Gurju Khatun, Zeki Müren, Théodore de Banville, and Isaeus. After him are Stanisław Przybyszewski, Benjamin Péret, Eva Schloss, Paul Goodman, Ion Creangă, and Mohammed Dib.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 114. Before him are Stanley Donen, Rudolf Vrba, Rikidōzan, Dinah Washington, Pat Hingle, and Khamtai Siphandon. After him are Alexander Haig, Bud Powell, Raymond Barre, Geraldine Page, Maria Riva, and Tatiana Nikolayeva. Among people deceased in 1998, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 78. Before him are Momoko Kōchi, Ted Hughes, Remo Giazotto, Vladimir Demikhov, Shotaro Ishinomori, and Don Taylor. After him are Efim Geller, César Baldaccini, László Szabó, Maureen O'Sullivan, Archie Moore, and Otto Wichterle.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 276 out of 1,365. Before him are Paisius Velichkovsky (1722), Haim Arlosoroff (1899), Joseph Kobzon (1937), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803), and Nikolai Kapustin (1937). After him are Denys Shmyhal (1975), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Stephen Timoshenko (1878), Emanuel Ringelblum (1900), Rinat Akhmetov (1966), and Efim Bogoljubov (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 38. Before him are Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), David Burliuk (1882), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Vasyl Stus (1938), and Lina Kostenko (1930). After him are Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), and Tadeusz Borowski (1922).

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