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Joseph Conrad

1857 - 1924

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Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, Polish: [ˈjuzɛf tɛˈɔdɔr ˈkɔnrat kɔʐɛˈɲɔfskʲi] ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties (always with a strong foreign accent) – became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depicted crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world. Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Conrad is the 201st most popular writer (down from 153rd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 11th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Joseph Conrad is most famous for his novel, Heart of Darkness.

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Among writers, Joseph Conrad ranks 201 out of 7,302. Before him are Fuzûlî, Johannes V. Jensen, Menander, François-René de Chateaubriand, Orhan Pamuk, and Friedrich Hölderlin. After him are Geoffrey Chaucer, Aldous Huxley, Imre Kertész, Luís de Camões, David Woodard, and Ahmad ibn Hanbal.

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Among people born in 1857, Joseph Conrad ranks 9. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure, Clara Zetkin, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Edward Elgar, and Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom. After him are Henrik Pontoppidan, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfonso XII of Spain, William Howard Taft, Ronald Ross, and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. Among people deceased in 1924, Joseph Conrad ranks 8. Before him are Franz Kafka, Giacomo Puccini, Anatole France, Woodrow Wilson, Louis Sullivan, and Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria. After him are Gabriel Fauré, Alfred Marshall, Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant, Bogd Khan, and Carl Spitteler.

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Among people born in Ukraine, Joseph Conrad ranks 19 out of 1,365. Before him are Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Ilya Repin (1844), Taras Shevchenko (1814), and Hafsa Sultan (1479). After him are Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), and Élie Metchnikoff (1845).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Joseph Conrad ranks 4. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), and Taras Shevchenko (1814). After him are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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