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Boris Pahor

1913 - 2022

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Boris Pahor, OMRI (; 26 August 1913 – 30 May 2022) was a Slovene novelist from Trieste, Italy, who was best known for his heartfelt descriptions of life as a member of the Slovenian minority in pre–Second World War increasingly fascist Italy as well as a Nazi concentration camp survivor. In his novel Necropolis he visits the Natzweiler-Struthof camp twenty years after his relocation to Dachau. Following Dachau, he was relocated three more times: to Mittelbau-Dora, to Harzungen, and finally to Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated on 15 April 1945. His success was not immediate; openly expressing his disapproval of communism in Yugoslavia, he was not acknowledged and was probably intentionally not recognized by his homeland until after Slovenia had gained its independence in 1991. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Pahor is the 1,370th most popular writer (down from 1,235th in 2019), the 1,511th most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,347th in 2019) and the 103rd most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Boris Pahor ranks 1,370 out of 7,302. Before him are Alfonsina Storni, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Ba Jin, Peter Abrahams, Honoré d'Urfé, and Alexander Radishchev. After him are Georg Kaiser, Pío Baroja, Ignazio Silone, Albert Barillé, Alexander Afanasyev, and Robert de Montesquiou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Boris Pahor ranks 76. Before him are Joe Simon, Gerda Christian, Lloyd Bridges, Benjamin Bloom, Edward Gierek, and Robert Adler. After him are Bruno Pontecorvo, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Sergey Mikhalkov, Roger Caillois, Israel Gelfand, and 'Abd al-Ilah. Among people deceased in 2022, Boris Pahor ranks 89. Before him are Cláudio Hummes, Catherine Spaak, Eric Walter Elst, Evaristo Carvalho, Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, and Ruggero Deodato. After him are Scott Hall, Viktor Saneyev, Wim Jansen, Leonel Sánchez, Peter Bogdanovich, and Saul Kripke.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Boris Pahor ranks 1,511 out of 5,161. Before him are Domenico di Pace Beccafumi (1486), Princess Marie of Orléans (1813), Gianna Beretta Molla (1922), Muzio Attendolo Sforza (1369), Alfredo Casella (1883), and Filippo Juvarra (1678). After him are Francesco Crispi (1818), Vittorino da Feltre (1378), Ignazio Silone (1900), Margaret, Countess of Tyrol (1318), Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans (1371), and Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Boris Pahor ranks 103. Before him are Giovanni Papini (1881), Odoric of Pordenone (1286), Quintus Fabius Pictor (-254), Clodia Pulchra (-94), Giovanni Verga (1840), and Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441). After him are Ignazio Silone (1900), Francesco Maria Piave (1810), Claudio Magris (1939), Veronica Franco (1546), Felice Romani (1788), and Pacuvius (-220).

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