WRITER

Jurek Becker

1937 - 1997

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Jurek Becker (German: [ˈjuːʁɛk ˈbɛkɐ] ; c. 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jurek Becker is the 4,048th most popular writer (up from 4,131st in 2019), the 857th most popular biography from Poland (up from 863rd in 2019) and the 97th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jurek Becker ranks 4,048 out of 7,302. Before him are Daniel Silva, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Decimus Laberius, Mary Renault, Onomacritus, and Leif G. W. Persson. After him are Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Zsigmond Móricz, Gary Chapman, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Emmy Hennings, and Andrejs Pumpurs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Jurek Becker ranks 303. Before him are Anita Traversi, Richard Marquand, Johnny Dorelli, Carlo Mazzone, Mirko Marjanović, and Jaime Lerner. After him are José Araquistáin, Ramsewak Shankar, Jacques Barrot, Tatyana Shchelkanova, Coen Moulijn, and Sally Kellerman. Among people deceased in 1997, Jurek Becker ranks 177. Before him are Tomoyuki Tanaka, Cahit Arf, Béla Barényi, Myrtle Bachelder, Dulce María Loynaz, and Sándor Végh. After him are Shinichi Hoshi, Jarl Kulle, Tamara Tyshkevich, Erich Eliskases, Agnieszka Osiecka, and Martin Kippenberger.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jurek Becker ranks 857 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Kott (1914), Grigory Levenfish (1889), Gustav Radde (1831), Max Berg (1870), Julius Hübner (1806), and Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778). After him are Zacharias Ursinus (1534), Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812), Michael Sela (1924), Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), and Zofia Zamenhof (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Jurek Becker ranks 97. Before him are Halina Konopacka (1900), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), Tadeusz Konwicki (1926), Zofia Nałkowska (1884), Alfred Kerr (1867), and Jan Kott (1914). After him are Agnieszka Osiecka (1936), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), Willibald Alexis (1798), Arno Holz (1863), Eva Kotchever (1891), and Florian Ceynowa (1817).

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