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Fadwa Tuqan

1917 - 2003

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Fadwa Tuqan (Arabic: فدوى طوقان, romanized: Fadwā Ṭūqān; 1 March 1917 – 12 December 2003) was a Palestinian poet known for her representations of resistance to Israeli occupation in contemporary Arab poetry. She has sometimes been referred to as the "Poet of Palestine". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fadwa Tuqan is the 3,916th most popular writer (down from 3,139th in 2019). (down from 2,529th in 2019)

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Among writers, Fadwa Tuqan ranks 3,916 out of 7,302. Before her are Zhou Zuoren, Mika Antić, Friedrich von Bodenstedt, István Örkény, Athol Fugard, and Apollon Maykov. After her are Seán O'Casey, Charles Grandison Finney, Michael Blake, Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin, Titus Calpurnius Siculus, and Mirza Khazar.

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Among people born in 1917, Fadwa Tuqan ranks 193. Before her are Robert Manzon, Durward Knowles, Joshua Nkomo, Simon Slåttvik, Vasiľ Biľak, and R. G. Armstrong. After her are Fidel Sánchez Hernández, M. G. Ramachandran, José Perácio, Song Ping, Lev Kerbel, and Inge Scholl. Among people deceased in 2003, Fadwa Tuqan ranks 196. Before her are Hans Hotter, Emil Loteanu, Blaga Dimitrova, Carlo Urbani, Timothy Treadwell, and Francesco Colasuonno. After her are Saifuddin Azizi, Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Philip Stone, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, and Fedora Barbieri.

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