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Paul Celan

1920 - 1970

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Paul Celan (; German: [ˈtseːlaːn]; born Paul Antschel; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name (an anagram of the Romanian spelling Ancel) following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1955. Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post-World War II era and a poet whose verse has gained an immortal place in the literary pantheon. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Celan is the 325th most popular writer (up from 335th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Romania and the 4th most popular Romanian Writer.

Paul Celan is most famous for his poem "Death Fugue."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Celan ranks 325 out of 7,302. Before him are Héloïse, François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, Italo Calvino, Marguerite de Navarre, and Nadine Gordimer. After him are Colette, Anne Brontë, André Malraux, William Golding, Callimachus, and Jaggi Vasudev.

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Among people born in 1920, Paul Celan ranks 14. Before him are Farouk of Egypt, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Ray Bradbury, George Shultz, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and Pran. After him are Mario Puzo, Owen Chamberlain, Frank Herbert, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Melina Mercouri, and Amália Rodrigues. Among people deceased in 1970, Paul Celan ranks 18. Before him are Max Born, Nelly Sachs, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Édouard Daladier, Otto Heinrich Warburg, and François Mauriac. After him are Peter II of Yugoslavia, Mark Rothko, C. V. Raman, Semyon Timoshenko, Rudolf Carnap, and Heinrich Brüning.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Paul Celan ranks 20 out of 844. Before him are Herta Müller (1953), Mircea Eliade (1907), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Radu cel Frumos (1438), Constantin Brâncuși (1876), and Vlad II Dracul (1395). After him are Theodoric I (393), Béla Kun (1886), Ion Iliescu (1930), Carol II of Romania (1893), György Ligeti (1923), and János Bolyai (1802).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Paul Celan ranks 4. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Herta Müller (1953). After him are Elie Wiesel (1928), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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