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Jerzy Kosiński

1933 - 1991

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Jerzy Kosiński (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ kɔˈɕij̃skʲi]; born Józef Lewinkopf; 14 June 1933 – 3 May 1991) was a Jewish-Polish-American writer and two-time president of the American chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English. Born in Poland, he survived World War II there, together with his family, with the help of their Polish villager neighbors; and, as a young man, he emigrated to the U.S., where he became a citizen. He was known for novels including Being There (1971) and the controversial The Painted Bird (1965), which were adapted as films, respectively, in 1979 and 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Kosiński is the 878th most popular writer (up from 1,540th in 2019), the 189th most popular biography from Poland (up from 343rd in 2019) and the 16th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jerzy Kosiński ranks 878 out of 7,302. Before him are Thomas Harris, Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, Guido Cavalcanti, Ibn al-Muqaffa', Miep Gies, and Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz. After him are Laura de Noves, Danilo Kiš, Varlam Shalamov, James May, Shoko Asahara, and Appius Claudius Caecus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Jerzy Kosiński ranks 62. Before him are Jayne Mansfield, Ali Shariati, Stanley Milgram, Sylva Koscina, Richard Rogers, and C. Odumegwu Ojukwu. After him are Abolhassan Banisadr, Than Shwe, Ahmad al-Khatib, Philip Zimbardo, William Luther Pierce, and Mohammad-Ali Rajai. Among people deceased in 1991, Jerzy Kosiński ranks 33. Before him are Arno Breker, Henri Lefebvre, Michael Landon, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Rajiv Gandhi, and Natalia Ginzburg. After him are Wilhelm Kempff, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Stan Getz, Jean Tinguely, Don Siegel, and Gunnar Gren.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jerzy Kosiński ranks 189 out of 1,694. Before him are Robert Lewandowski (1988), Miroslav Klose (1978), Piast the Wheelwright (800), Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776), Cymburgis of Masovia (1394), and Casimir I the Restorer (1016). After him are Marian Rejewski (1905), Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885), Helena Rubinstein (1872), Heinrich Rickert (1863), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915), and Daniel Libeskind (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jerzy Kosiński ranks 16. Before him are Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Olga Tokarczuk (1962), Witold Gombrowicz (1904), Christa Wolf (1929), and Jan Potocki (1761). After him are Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788), Ernst Toller (1893), Bolesław Prus (1847), Emil Ludwig (1881), B. Traven (1882), and Arnold Zweig (1887).

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