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Salvatore Quasimodo

1901 - 1968

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Salvatore Quasimodo (Italian: [salvaˈtoːre kwaˈziːmodo]; 20 August 1901 – 14 June 1968) was an Italian poet and translator, awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he was one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Salvatore Quasimodo is the 562nd most popular writer (down from 451st in 2019), the 736th most popular biography from Italy (down from 574th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Italian Writer.

Salvatore Quasimodo is most famous for his novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 562 out of 7,302. Before him are Henry IV of Castile, Matilde Camus, Elie Wiesel, Anthony Burgess, Tom Clancy, and James Hilton. After him are Beatrix Potter, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Sayat-Nova, Frontinus, Sidney Sheldon, and Frederick Forsyth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 38. Before him are Ricardo Zamora, Simon Kuznets, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, and Henning von Tresckow. After him are Margaret Mead, Andrey Vlasov, Robert Bresson, Arthur Liebehenschel, José Leandro Andrade, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Among people deceased in 1968, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 22. Before him are Trygve Lie, Karl Barth, Georg von Küchler, Erwin Panofsky, Enid Blyton, and Corneille Heymans. After him are Jim Clark, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, Neal Cassady, and Alexandre Kojève.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 736 out of 5,161. Before him are Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476), Giovanni Agnelli (1866), Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Lucullus (-118), and Marcus Furius Camillus (-446). After him are Fausto Coppi (1919), Desiderius (710), Bernardino of Siena (1380), Odilo Globočnik (1904), Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485), and Rudolph Valentino (1895).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Salvatore Quasimodo ranks 45. Before him are Fausto Cercignani (1941), Baldassare Castiglione (1478), Statius (40), Alessandro Manzoni (1785), Edmondo De Amicis (1846), and Tibullus (-50). After him are Dino Buzzati (1906), Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Aulus Gellius (123), Poliziano (1454), Gabriele Amorth (1925), and Giambattista Basile (1566).

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