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Adam Michnik

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Adam Michnik (Polish: [ˈadam ˈmixɲik]; born 17 October 1946) is a Polish historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, as well as co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. Reared in a family of committed communists, Michnik became an opponent of Poland's communist regime at the time of the party's anti-Jewish purges. He was imprisoned after the 1968 March Events and again after the imposition of martial law in 1981. He has been called "one of Poland's most famous political prisoners". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Michnik is the 2,853rd most popular writer (down from 2,831st in 2019), the 625th most popular biography from Poland (up from 631st in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Adam Michnik ranks 2,853 out of 7,302. Before him are Roy Medvedev, Massimo Bontempelli, Benjamin Fondane, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Per Petterson, and Theodore Prodromos. After him are Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Unsuri, Jules Vallès, and Catulle Mendès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Adam Michnik ranks 294. Before him are Miklós Németh, Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, Murray Head, Sue Lyon, Ibn Warraq, and Stephen Rea. After him are Ewa Kłobukowska, Carl Wilson, Dick Wolf, Jeff Wall, Patty Duke, and Anatoliy Byshovets.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 625 out of 1,694. Before him are Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1549), Franciszek Smuglewicz (1745), Josef Tal (1910), Wolfgang Weber (1944), Max Abraham (1875), and Józef Wybicki (1747). After him are Helena Rakoczy (1921), Marian Spychalski (1906), Ewa Kłobukowska (1946), Stanislaus Hosius (1504), Lothar Bisky (1941), and Władysław Podkowiński (1866).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Adam Michnik ranks 63. Before him are Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (1925), Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909), Ignacy Krasicki (1735), Tadeusz Różewicz (1921), Sholem Asch (1880), and Isaac Deutscher (1907). After him are Alexander Imich (1903), Aleksander Fredro (1793), Zofia Posmysz (1923), Stefanie Zweig (1932), Marcin Bielski (1495), and Bronisława Wajs (1908).

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