WRITER

Ronald Harwood

1934 - 2020

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Sir Ronald Harwood (né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ronald Harwood is the 3,168th most popular writer (down from 2,835th in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 49th in 2019) and the 8th most popular South African Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ronald Harwood ranks 3,168 out of 7,302. Before him are Péter Szondi, Lev Kopelev, Alexandros Papadiamantis, Edwin Arnold, Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, and Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé. After him are Farag Foda, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Aemilius Macer, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Andre Norton, and Robert Penn Warren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Ronald Harwood ranks 223. Before him are Zilda Arns, Vladimir Posner, Savely Kramarov, Dida, Vicar, and Gyoji Matsumoto. After him are Juraj Herz, Aram Tigran, Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, Oleg Kalugin, Horst Szymaniak, and Ilaria Occhini. Among people deceased in 2020, Ronald Harwood ranks 264. Before him are Daria Nicolodi, Vyacheslav Kebich, Ray Clemence, Cecil Bødker, Juan Marsé, and Milton Glaser. After him are Sonja Edström, Irena Veisaitė, Corine Rottschäfer, Abdurrahim El-Keib, Luke Harper, and Enzo Mari.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Ronald Harwood ranks 75 out of 454. Before him are Zindzi Mandela (1960), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907), Louisa Bolus (1877), Breyten Breytenbach (1939), and Cyril Cusack (1910). After him are Oliver Tambo (1917), Piet Joubert (1834), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), Gordon Murray (1946), David Cooper (1931), and Marlene Dumas (1953).

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Among WRITERS In South Africa

Among writers born in South Africa, Ronald Harwood ranks 8. Before him are J. M. Coetzee (1940), Nadine Gordimer (1923), Peter Abrahams (1919), André Brink (1935), Laurence Oliphant (1829), and Breyten Breytenbach (1939). After him are Laurens van der Post (1906), Athol Fugard (1932), Alan Paton (1903), Deon Meyer (1958), Gcina Mhlophe (1958), and Elsa Joubert (1922).

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