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Charles Bukowski

1920 - 1994

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Henry Charles Bukowski ( boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Bukowski is the 137th most popular writer (down from 120th in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 81st in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Writer.

Charles Bukowski is most famous for his autobiographical novels and poetry about the life of a low-income, working-class man.

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Among writers, Charles Bukowski ranks 137 out of 7,302. Before him are Ezra Pound, François Villon, Günter Grass, Haruki Murakami, Jean Cocteau, and August Strindberg. After him are Jonathan Swift, Paul Verlaine, Lewis Carroll, Boris Pasternak, Dr. Seuss, and Yukio Mishima.

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Among people born in 1920, Charles Bukowski ranks 5. Before him are Pope John Paul II, Federico Fellini, Isaac Asimov, and Yul Brynner. After him are Rosalind Franklin, Toshiro Mifune, Farouk of Egypt, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. Among people deceased in 1994, Charles Bukowski ranks 5. Before him are Kim Il-sung, Ayrton Senna, Richard Nixon, and Karl Popper. After him are Erich Honecker, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eugène Ionesco, Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, and Burt Lancaster.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Charles Bukowski ranks 102 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758), Wilhelm Keitel (1882), Klemens von Metternich (1773), Karl Jaspers (1883), Rudolf Höss (1901), and Peter III of Russia (1728). After him are Heinz Guderian (1888), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Pope Joan (null), Gerhard Schröder (1944), Michael Schumacher (1969), and Pope Damasus II (1000).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Charles Bukowski ranks 9. Before him are Hermann Hesse (1877), Friedrich Schiller (1759), Bertolt Brecht (1898), Thomas Mann (1875), Heinrich Heine (1797), and Erich Maria Remarque (1898). After him are Novalis (1772), Heinrich Böll (1917), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Nelly Sachs (1891), and Paul Heyse (1830).

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