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Ilse Aichinger

1921 - 2016

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Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. She wrote poems, short stories and radio plays, and won multiple European literary prizes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ilse Aichinger is the 2,254th most popular writer (up from 2,517th in 2019), the 495th most popular biography from Austria (up from 535th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ilse Aichinger ranks 2,254 out of 7,302. Before her are Karlheinz Deschner, Uri Avnery, Benjamin Péret, Giuseppe Giacosa, Fred Uhlman, and Zbigniew Herbert. After her are Dacia Maraini, Sebastian Haffner, Giovanni Botero, Thor Vilhjálmsson, Krishna Sobti, and Abraham Sutzkever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Ilse Aichinger ranks 146. Before her are Neslişah Sultan, Shin Kyuk-ho, Georgy Beregovoy, Darío Moreno, Ann Savage, and Abe Vigoda. After her are Daniel Gélin, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Manitas de Plata, Louis Lachenal, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and Malcolm Arnold. Among people deceased in 2016, Ilse Aichinger ranks 166. Before her are Peter Vaughan, Guy Hamilton, Juan Gabriel, Abe Vigoda, Mark Taimanov, and Chus Lampreave. After her are Ferdinand Kübler, Michu Meszaros, Akhtar Mansour, Qahhor Mahkamov, Curtis Hanson, and Trifon Ivanov.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ilse Aichinger ranks 495 out of 1,424. Before her are Erich Probst (1927), Viktor Schauberger (1885), Prince René of Bourbon-Parma (1894), Maria von Trapp (1905), Petar Brzica (1917), and Leopold Figl (1902). After her are Victor Babeș (1854), Alexander Korda (1893), Thomas Gold (1920), Ernst Marischka (1893), Sylvester Stadler (1910), and Ernst Ocwirk (1926).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Ilse Aichinger ranks 36. Before her are Marlen Haushofer (1920), Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774), Gitta Sereny (1921), Johann Nestroy (1801), Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874), and Eva Schloss (1929). After her are Alfréd Wetzler (1918), Heimito von Doderer (1896), Ceija Stojka (1933), Dezső Kosztolányi (1885), Raul Hilberg (1926), and Ulrich von Liechtenstein (1200).

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