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Michalina Wisłocka

1921 - 2005

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Michalina Anna Wisłocka ([mʲi.xaˈlʲi.na ˈan̪ːa viˈswɔt͡ska]; née Braun; 1 July 1921 – 5 February 2005) was a Polish gynecologist, sexologist, and author of Sztuka kochania (verbatim: The Art of Loving, English edition A Practical Guide to Marital Bliss, 1978), the first guide to sexual life in a communist country. Her book became a bestseller, with a total circulation of 7 million copies, and started greater openness about matters of sex and sex life in Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michalina Wisłocka is the 4,514th most popular writer (up from 4,673rd in 2019), the 938th most popular biography from Poland (up from 959th in 2019) and the 111th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 4,514 out of 7,302. Before her are Rosa Sensat, Mary Welsh Hemingway, Régine Deforges, Hector Bianciotti, Alexander Galich, and Robert Pinget. After her are Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Ava, Tad Williams, Olivier de Serres, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, and Rachel de Queiroz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 294. Before her are Tore Sjöstrand, Betty Hutton, Antony Padiyara, John Stott, Joe Fagan, and Ferenc Karinthy. After her are H. C. Artmann, Yuri Ozerov, Joann Lõssov, Kees de Jager, Jacques Martin, and Ely. Among people deceased in 2005, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 219. Before her are Julián Marías, Eugene McCarthy, Jesús Rafael Soto, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Colette Besson, and Jan Nowak-Jeziorański. After her are Donald Watson, Attilâ İlhan, Natalya Meklin, Audrey Brown, Mario David, and Gordon Gould.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 938 out of 1,694. Before her are Fritz Stern (1926), Stanisław Kowalski (1910), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski (1503), Tommy Wiseau (1955), Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925), and Adam Zamenhof (1888). After her are Janusz Kamiński (1959), Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1886), Adam Asnyk (1838), Jan T. Gross (1947), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), and Paweł Mąciwoda (1967).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Michalina Wisłocka ranks 111. Before her are Karl von Holtei (1798), Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616), Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński (1905), Łukasz Górnicki (1527), Hanna Krall (1935), and Martin Gray (1922). After her are Adam Asnyk (1838), Bolesław Leśmian (1877), Leszek Engelking (1955), Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (1621), Marek Hłasko (1934), and Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891).

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