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Ahmed Shawqi

1868 - 1932

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Ahmed Shawqi (Arabic: أحمد شوقي, ALA-LC: Aḥmad Shawqī, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [ˈʔæħmæd ˈʃæwʔi]; 1868–1932), nicknamed the Prince of Poets (Arabic: أمير الشعراء Amīr al-Shu‘arā’), was an Egyptian poet laureate, linguist, and one of the most famous Arabic literary writers of the modern era in the Arab World. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ahmed Shawqi is the 1,683rd most popular writer (down from 1,516th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 259th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 1,683 out of 7,302. Before him are Dean Koontz, James Oliver Curwood, Akiyuki Nosaka, Vita Sackville-West, Varro Atacinus, and Lina Kostenko. After him are Gil Vicente, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Ryū Murakami, Jacopo Sannazaro, Anne Desclos, and Michael Cunningham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 68. Before him are Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, Olga Knipper, Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, Noe Zhordania, Empress Dowager Longyu, and Kantarō Suzuki. After him are Henry Bergman, James Brendan Connolly, Wilhelm Schmidt, Francis Jammes, Émile Chartier, and Ernst Linder. Among people deceased in 1932, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 38. Before him are Franz von Hipper, Émile Friant, Ottokar Czernin, Georg Kerschensteiner, Guillaume Bigourdan, and Johannes Schober. After him are Alajos Szokolyi, Ramon Casas, Tomáš Baťa, René-Louis Baire, Alexander Grin, and José Félix Uriburu.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 277 out of 642. Before him are Pope Peter II of Alexandria (null), Pope Demetrius I of Alexandria (200), Yuya (-1500), Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888), Merytre-Hatshepsut (-1500), and Marika Rökk (1913). After him are Al-Musta'in (1390), Alexander II Zabinas (-190), Bakenranef (-700), Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Samir Amin (1931), and Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Ahmed Shawqi ranks 16. Before him are Nonnus (500), Dionysius Thrax (-170), Pope Dionysius of Alexandria (190), Taha Hussein (1889), Achilles Tatius (200), and Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888). After him are Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (1928), Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (1801), Herodas (-300), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), and Anastasius Sinaita (630).

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