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Mirdza Ķempe

1907 - 1974

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Mirdza Ķempe (later Naikovska) (9 February [O.S. 27 January] 1907 – 12 April 1974) was a Soviet and Latvian poet, writer and translator. She was a recipient of the State Prize of Latvian SSR (1958), USSR State Prize (1967), and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mirdza Ķempe is the 4,661st most popular writer (up from 5,833rd in 2019), the 143rd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 177th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Latvian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mirdza Ķempe ranks 4,661 out of 7,302Before her are Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Dora Gabe, Ivan Olbracht, Maxwell Anderson, Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli, and Fran Levstik. After her are Nikolay Zabolotsky, Moacyr Scliar, Chris Morgan, George Crabbe, Osip Senkovsky, and Anton Buttigieg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Mirdza Ķempe ranks 272Before her are Jacques Roumain, Ramón Guzmán, Eugène Chaboud, Oscarino Costa Silva, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, and Vicente Enrique y Tarancón. After her are Fritz Wotruba, Ángel Arocha, Clifford Curzon, Adelaide Lambert, Vitaliano Brancati, and Jean Langlais. Among people deceased in 1974, Mirdza Ķempe ranks 177Before her are Adolph Gottlieb, Alfred Keller, Sergey Lebedev, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Mikhail Tikhonravov, and Alexander P. de Seversky. After her are Pedro Benítez, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Konrad Frey, Béla Illés, Edward Condon, and Ali Mansur.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Mirdza Ķempe ranks 143 out of 323Before her are Indra Devi (1899), Heinz Erhardt (1909), Aleksandrs Čaks (1901), Laima Vaikule (1954), Werner Bergengruen (1892), and Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947). After her are Eliyahu Rips (1948), Marija Naumova (1973), Aleksandr Kaleri (1956), Eduard Tisse (1897), Bruno Habārovs (1939), and Jānis Cimze (1814).

Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Mirdza Ķempe ranks 20Before her are Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Anna Brigadere (1861), Astrid Ivask (1926), Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863), Aleksandrs Čaks (1901), and Werner Bergengruen (1892). After her are Andrejs Upīts (1877), Erik Hornung (1933), Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Regīna Ezera (1930), Imants Ziedonis (1933), and Juris Alunāns (1832).