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Alda Merini

1931 - 2009

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Alda Merini (21 March 1931 – 1 November 2009) was an Italian writer and poet. Her work earned the attention and admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. Merini's writing style has been described as intense, passionate and mystic, and it is influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke. Some of her most dramatic poems concern her time in a mental health institution (from 1964 to 1970). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alda Merini is the 3,054th most popular writer (down from 2,651st in 2019), the 2,730th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,502nd in 2019) and the 183rd most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Alda Merini ranks 3,054 out of 7,302. Before her are Antoine de Rivarol, Àngel Guimerà, Louis of Granada, Sigurd Hoel, Tim Krabbé, and Wu Jingzi. After her are Al-Asmaʿi, Bronisława Wajs, Charlotte Smith, Jules Barbier, Juan Ruiz, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Alda Merini ranks 223. Before her are Fred Brooks, Moshé Mizrahi, Dominique Lapierre, Andrew Hill, Scotty Moore, and Bernard Francis Law. After her are Vizma Belševica, Nick Bollettieri, Ann E. Todd, Mukaghali Makatayev, E. L. Doctorow, and Krzysztof Komeda. Among people deceased in 2009, Alda Merini ranks 150. Before her are Dan O'Bannon, Yoshito Usui, José Torres, Stéphanos II Ghattas, Venetia Burney, and Ken Annakin. After her are Jim Carroll, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Jim Rohn, Béla Király, Robert Anderson, and Peter Shirayanagi.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alda Merini ranks 2,730 out of 5,161. Before her are Giovanni Maria Bononcini (1642), Adolfo Consolini (1917), Eugenio Dal Corso (1939), Giuseppe Amisani (1881), Luigi Carnera (1875), and Marcus Valerius Corvus (-371). After her are Francesco Graziani (1952), Gino Paoli (1934), Guido Crepax (1933), Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro (1948), Marcus Fulvius Nobilior (-300), and Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (1841).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Alda Merini ranks 183. Before her are Moderata Fonte (1555), Lucrezia Marinella (1571), Salimbene di Adam (1221), Félix Fénéon (1861), Titus Burckhardt (1908), and Silvio Pellico (1789). After her are Ludovico di Varthema (1470), Marco Foscarini (1696), Roberto Calasso (1941), Aemilius Macer (null), Giovanni della Casa (1503), and Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824).

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