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Marie Under

1883 - 1980

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Marie Under (27 March [O.S. 15 March] 1883 – 25 September 1980) was an Estonian poet. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 14 separate years. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie Under is the 1,767th most popular writer (up from 2,327th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 50th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Estonian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marie Under ranks 1,767 out of 7,302Before her are Minna Canth, Silvina Ocampo, Baba Tahir, Shūsaku Endō, Junji Ito, and Dominique Venner. After her are R. L. Stine, Aphra Behn, François Coppée, Menander Protector, Francis Jammes, and Raymond Roussel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Marie Under ranks 81Before her are Prince Konrad of Bavaria, Henri Delaunay, Karl von Terzaghi, Johnston McCulley, Augustinas Voldemaras, and Bogdan Filov. After her are William Carlos Williams, José Mendes Cabeçadas, Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Walter Huston, Leonid Kulik, and Walter Buch. Among people deceased in 1980, Marie Under ranks 81Before her are Joy Adamson, Raoul Walsh, V. V. Giri, Elvira de Hidalgo, Tex Avery, and Masayoshi Ōhira. After her are Dietrich von Saucken, Ernst Busch, Ida Kamińska, Marino Marini, Valko Chervenkov, and Sergey Taboritsky.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Marie Under ranks 38 out of 351Before her are Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770), Alexander Gorchakov (1798), Ilon Wikland (1930), Neeme Järvi (1937), Michael Sittow (1459), and Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819). After her are Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622), Leonid Kulik (1883), Hermann von Keyserling (1880), Charles Philip, Duke of Södermanland (1601), Bernhard Schmidt (1879), and Jüri Lossmann (1891).

Among WRITERS In Estonia

Among writers born in Estonia, Marie Under ranks 4Before her are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), Jaan Kross (1920), and Lydia Koidula (1843). After her are Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878), Jaan Kaplinski (1941), Betti Alver (1906), Balthasar Russow (1536), Carl Robert Jakobson (1841), Eduard Vilde (1865), Jakob Hurt (1839), and Hella Wuolijoki (1886).