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WRITER

Zbigniew Herbert

1924 - 1998

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Zbigniew Herbert (IPA: [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 191,286 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Zbigniew Herbert is the 2,115th most popular writer (up from 2,132nd in 2019), the 300th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 278th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 2,115 out of 5,755Before him are Hamdallah Mustawfi, Jean Paulhan, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Jacques Collin de Plancy, Asclepiades of Samos, and Erich Mühsam. After him are Ottavio Rinuccini, Aloysius Bertrand, Johann Jakob Bodmer, Ding Ling, Gabriel Matzneff, and Archibald Gracie IV.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 132Before him are William Auld, Allan Edwall, Carlo Bergonzi, Cicely Tyson, Edward Cassidy, and Alexander Haig. After him are József Zakariás, Sabine Weiss, Idries Shah, Alain Bombard, Fess Parker, and Raymond Barre. Among people deceased in 1998, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 91Before him are Momoko Kōchi, Georgy Sviridov, Bruno Munari, Frithjof Schuon, Efim Geller, and Christian Mortensen. After him are Birger Ruud, Shinichi Suzuki, Nguyễn Văn Linh, Lucio Battisti, Vladimir Demikhov, and Richard Hamming.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 300 out of 1,083Before him are Salo Flohr (1908), Efim Geller (1925), Rostislav I of Kiev (1110), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Vasyl Stus (1938), and Alexander Georg von Bunge (1803). After him are Sergey Kamenev (1881), Hilarion of Kiev (990), Mark Taimanov (1926), Natan Sharansky (1948), Irina Press (1939), and Adam Zagajewski (1945).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 40Before him are Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Lina Kostenko (1930), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Tadeusz Borowski (1922), and Vasyl Stus (1938). After him are Adam Zagajewski (1945), Valentin Kataev (1897), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), Panteleimon Kulish (1819), Mikołaj Rej (1505), and Mikhail Artsybashev (1878).