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Pentti Saarikoski

1937 - 1983

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Pentti Saarikoski (Impilahti, now in the Republic of Karelia September 2, 1937 – Joensuu August 24, 1983) was a Finnish poet. He is considered one of the most important poets in the literary scene of Finland during the 1960s and 1970s. His body of work comprises poetry and translations, among them such classics as Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ulysses. According to Saarikoski, he was the only person in the world who had ever translated both Homer's and Joyce's Ulysses – a statement that probably holds true even today. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pentti Saarikoski is the 5,498th most popular writer (down from 5,423rd in 2019), the 2,065th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,058th in 2019) and the 250th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pentti Saarikoski ranks 5,498 out of 7,302. Before him are Anna Maria Ortese, Susan Blackmore, Nino Martoglio, Sara Paretsky, Dahlia Ravikovitch, and Jonathan Stroud. After him are Daniel Tammet, Lew Rockwell, Timrava, Eeva-Liisa Manner, Nathan Zach, and Abraham Cowley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Pentti Saarikoski ranks 436. Before him are Francesco Janich, Gennadi Gusarov, Alfredo Rojas, Carlos Campos, Yuri Maslyukov, and Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő. After him are Duane Jones, Joseph Saidu Momoh, Jan Kaplický, John Ogdon, Anna Massey, and Raj Reddy. Among people deceased in 1983, Pentti Saarikoski ranks 224. Before him are Karandash, Eva Pawlik, Kalevi Kotkas, Lisette Model, Tomás Ojeda, and Jacqueline Logan. After him are Georges Spénale, Harish-Chandra, Armand Lanoux, Claude Papi, Erik Ode, and Gerry Hitchens.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Pentti Saarikoski ranks 2,065 out of 3,761. Before him are Mikhail Somov (1908), Mikhail Tyurin (1960), Sergey Urusevsky (1908), Vassili Poyarkov (null), Feodor Yulievich Levinson-Lessing (1861), and Viktor Anichkin (1941). After him are Grigory Grum-Grshimailo (1860), Lyudmila Pinayeva (1936), Georgy Adelson-Velsky (1922), Sergei Zubatov (1864), Dmitri Vrubel (1960), and Mikhail Krug (1962).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Pentti Saarikoski ranks 250. Before him are Sergey Gorodetsky (1884), Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900), Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884), Lev Mei (1822), Nikolai Pogodin (1900), and Alexander Shishkov (1754). After him are Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950), Ivan Dmitriev (1760), Darya Dontsova (1952), Yuri Samarin (1819), Vasily Belov (1932), and Majit Gafuri (1880).

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