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Adam Zagajewski

1945 - 2021

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Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 Princess of Asturias Award for Literature, and the 2018 Golden Wreath of Poetry at the Struga Poetry Evenings. He was considered a leading poet of the Generation of '68, or Polish New Wave (Polish: Nowa fala), and one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Zagajewski is the 1,790th most popular writer (down from 1,763rd in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 251st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among writers, Adam Zagajewski ranks 1,790 out of 7,302. Before him are Viktor Barna, William Carlos Williams, Izabela Czartoryska, José Carlos Mariátegui, Thomas of Celano, and Julien Gracq. After him are Gabriel Naudé, Ibn Kemal, Lilya Brik, Colin Dexter, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Gaius Julius Solinus.

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Among people born in 1945, Adam Zagajewski ranks 167. Before him are Dean Koontz, Christine Kaufmann, Radu Lupu, Jessye Norman, Martin Shaw, and Ilija Petković. After him are Patty McCormack, Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, Meir Dagan, Princess Michael of Kent, Barbara Carrera, and Billy Drago. Among people deceased in 2021, Adam Zagajewski ranks 132. Before him are Mira Furlan, Tarcisio Burgnich, Yuriy Sedykh, Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan, Ion Mihai Pacepa, and Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya. After him are Enrique Bolaños, Yaphet Kotto, Lucinda Riley, Nino Castelnuovo, Đorđe Balašević, and Marion Ramsey.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Adam Zagajewski ranks 256 out of 1,365. Before him are Eugen Ehrlich (1862), Pavel Sudoplatov (1907), Aleksandr Medved (1937), Mark Bernes (1911), Otto Struve (1897), and Viacheslav Chornovil (1937). After him are Ida Kamińska (1899), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Konstanty Ostrogski (1460), Muhammad Asad (1900), Solomiya Krushelnytska (1872), and Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Adam Zagajewski ranks 32. Before him are Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), and Lina Kostenko (1930). After him are David Burliuk (1882), Dobrodeia of Kiev (1101), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), and Ahad Ha'am (1856).

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