WRITER

Mika Waltari

1908 - 1979

Mika Waltari

Mika Toimi Waltari (pronounced [ˈmikɑ ˈʋɑltɑri] ; 19 September 1908 – 26 August 1979) was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian (Finnish: Sinuhe egyptiläinen). He was extremely productive. Besides his novels he also wrote poetry, short stories, crime novels, plays, essays, travel stories, film scripts, and rhymed texts for comic strips by Asmo Alho. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mika Waltari is the 512th most popular writer (down from 385th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Finland (down from 9th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Finnish Writer.

Mika Waltari is most famous for his novels, The Egyptian and The Etruscan.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mika Waltari ranks 512 out of 7,302. Before him are Hector Malot, Edmondo De Amicis, Thomas Paine, Erich Kästner, Heinrich Mann, and Isaac Babel. After him are August Wilhelm Schlegel, Robert Walser, Jostein Gaarder, Ivan Franko, Tibullus, and Ivan Goncharov.

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Hector Malot
1830 - 1907
HPI: 72.73
Rank: 506
Edmondo De Amicis
1846 - 1908
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 507
Thomas Paine
1737 - 1809
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 508
Erich Kästner
1899 - 1974
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 509
Heinrich Mann
1871 - 1950
HPI: 72.62
Rank: 510
Isaac Babel
1894 - 1940
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 511
Mika Waltari
1908 - 1979
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 512
August Wilhelm Schlegel
1767 - 1845
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 513
Robert Walser
1878 - 1956
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 514
Jostein Gaarder
1952 - Present
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 515
Ivan Franko
1856 - 1916
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 516
Tibullus
50 BC - 19 BC
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 517
Ivan Goncharov
1812 - 1891
HPI: 72.53
Rank: 518

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Mika Waltari ranks 27. Before him are Bette Davis, Anna Magnani, John Bardeen, Ian Fleming, David Oistrakh, and Józef Gosławski. After him are Geli Raubal, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Ilya Frank, Aden Adde, Michael DeBakey, and Franz Stangl. Among people deceased in 1979, Mika Waltari ranks 16. Before him are Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Jean Monnet, Sándor Kocsis, Talcott Parsons, and Nadia Boulanger. After him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Hafizullah Amin, Ludvík Svoboda, Robert Burns Woodward, Mustafa Barzani, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.

Others Born in 1908

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Bette Davis
ACTOR
1908 - 1989
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 21
Anna Magnani
ACTOR
1908 - 1973
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 22
John Bardeen
PHYSICIST
1908 - 1991
HPI: 73.99
Rank: 23
Ian Fleming
WRITER
1908 - 1964
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 24
David Oistrakh
MUSICIAN
1908 - 1974
HPI: 72.83
Rank: 25
Józef Gosławski
SCULPTOR
1908 - 1963
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 26
Mika Waltari
WRITER
1908 - 1979
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 27
Geli Raubal
CELEBRITY
1908 - 1931
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 28
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
BUSINESSPERSON
1908 - 1967
HPI: 72.35
Rank: 29
Ilya Frank
PHYSICIST
1908 - 1990
HPI: 72.03
Rank: 30
Aden Adde
POLITICIAN
1908 - 2007
HPI: 71.73
Rank: 31
Michael DeBakey
PHYSICIAN
1908 - 2008
HPI: 71.50
Rank: 32
Franz Stangl
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1908 - 1971
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 33