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Anna Langfus

1920 - 1966

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Anna Langfus (born Anna-Regina Szternfinkiel; 2 January 1920 – 12 May 1966) was a Polish-French author. She was also a Holocaust survivor. She won the Prix Goncourt for Les bagages de sable (translated as "Bags of Sand"), about a concentration camp survivor. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Langfus is the 3,525th most popular writer (up from 4,048th in 2019), the 759th most popular biography from Poland (up from 846th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anna Langfus ranks 3,525 out of 7,302. Before her are John Flanagan, Fanny Crosby, Mahmoud Shabestari, Évariste de Parny, Claudius Salmasius, and Krišjānis Barons. After her are Abu Ali Bal'ami, Richard Yates, Tibor Déry, Xiao Hong, Carlo Rosselli, and Robert Holdstock.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Anna Langfus ranks 221. Before her are Koichi Tohei, Augusto da Costa, Camillo Felgen, Willie Watson, Pierre Poujade, and Rudolf Kárpáti. After her are Gerda Lerner, Tommy Godwin, Natalya Kovshova, John Lewis, John Chadwick, and Patrick Troughton. Among people deceased in 1966, Anna Langfus ranks 120. Before her are Natacha Rambova, Julie Manet, Vicente Rojo Lluch, Joe Spence, Erich Pommer, and C. S. Forester. After her are Arthur Waley, Mehmet Fuat Köprülü, Alfred Berger, Nikolay Cherkasov, Joseph A. Walker, and Helen Kane.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Langfus ranks 759 out of 1,694. Before her are Kurd Lasswitz (1848), Dorothea of Montau (1347), Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768), Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (1561), Carl Schuricht (1880), and Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1769). After her are Juliusz Kossak (1824), Elżbieta Krzesińska (1934), Simonas Daukantas (1793), Katja Ebstein (1945), Bernhard Lichtenberg (1875), and Johann Christian Günther (1695).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Anna Langfus ranks 83. Before her are Uwe Johnson (1934), Nathan Alterman (1910), Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715), Hermann Rauschning (1887), Kurd Lasswitz (1848), and Jędrzej Śniadecki (1768). After her are Simonas Daukantas (1793), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (1889), Marcin Kromer (1512), Joanna Chmielewska (1932), and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919).

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