WRITER

Zsigmond Móricz

1879 - 1942

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Zsigmond Móricz (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈʒiɡmond ˈmoːrit͡s]; 29 June 1879, Tiszacsécse – 4 September 1942) was a major Hungarian novelist and Social Realist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zsigmond Móricz has received more than 72,370 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Zsigmond Móricz is the 3,572nd most popular writer (down from 3,450th in 2019), the 381st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 355th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Hungarian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zsigmond Móricz ranks 3,572 out of 7,302Before him are Ernst Weiss, Robert Garnier, Liza Marklund, Safvet-beg Bašagić, Robert W. Chambers, and Sergio Ramírez. After him are Graham Hancock, Krišjānis Barons, Richard Curtis, Emma Lazarus, Louis Pergaud, and Antonio Palomino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Zsigmond Móricz ranks 131Before him are Kafū Nagai, Milan Šufflay, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Helena Roerich, Leonid Mandelstam, and Pavel Bazhov. After him are Grace Coolidge, Mazo de la Roche, Wu Lien-teh, Albert Taillandier, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, and Eugen Varga. Among people deceased in 1942, Zsigmond Móricz ranks 147Before him are J. B. M. Hertzog, Francis Younghusband, Alexey Troitsky, Emanuel Feuermann, Xiao Hong, and Adolf Mayer. After him are Mordechai Gebirtig, Jack Greenwell, Adolphe Grisel, Daniel Alomía Robles, Ants Piip, and Natalya Kovshova.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Zsigmond Móricz ranks 381 out of 1,077Before him are Pál Losonczi (1919), Imre Makovecz (1935), Charles Vidor (1900), Cornell Capa (1918), László Cseh (1910), and Antal Szalay (1912). After him are Zoltán Kocsis (1952), Iván Fischer (1951), Ferenc Sas (1915), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), Tibor Déry (1894), and Miklós Németh (1946).

Among WRITERS In Hungary

Among writers born in Hungary, Zsigmond Móricz ranks 42Before him are Miklós Radnóti (1909), Péter Szondi (1929), Mihály Babits (1883), Simon of Kéza (1250), Ferenc Kölcsey (1790), and István Örkény (1912). After him are Tibor Déry (1894), Gyula Krúdy (1878), Milán Füst (1888), Ferenc Fejtő (1909), Yuriy Venelin (1802), and Edith Bruck (1931).