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Stanisław Barańczak

1946 - 2014

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Stanisław Barańczak (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲiswav baˈrajnt͡ʂak], November 13, 1946 – December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to-Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare and of the poetry of E.E. Cummings, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Wystan Hugh Auden, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Stearns Eliot, John Keats, Robert Frost, Edward Lear and others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Stanisław Barańczak is the 6,180th most popular writer (down from 5,652nd in 2024), the 1,238th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,123rd in 2019) and the 150th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stanisław Barańczak ranks 6,180 out of 7,302. Before him are Kenneth Burke, Philippe Delerm, Larry Kramer, Dejan Ajdačić, Hannah More, and John Jakes. After him are Mikhail Gurevich, Ryukishi07, Dorothy Wordsworth, Daniel Pearl, Gyula Juhász, and Tillie Olsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Stanisław Barańczak ranks 706. Before him are Valery Muratov, Naomi Judd, Julia Annas, Uroš Marović, John M. Lounge, and Chris Burden. After him are Oscar Zubía, John B. Taylor, Ma Kai, Kazuhiro Ninomiya, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Clive Bunker. Among people deceased in 2014, Stanisław Barańczak ranks 483. Before him are Howard Baker, Peter Matthiessen, Patrice Wymore, Uroš Marović, Jeremiah Denton, and Wayne Static. After him are Álex Angulo, Iveta Bartošová, Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Franca Falcucci, Anjali Devi, and Jacques Bergerac.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stanisław Barańczak ranks 1,238 out of 1,694. Before him are Dariusz Michalczewski (1968), Grzegorz Krychowiak (1990), Jan Kowalczyk (1941), Jan Furtok (1962), Anna Held (1872), and Jürgen Colombo (1949). After him are Piotr Świerczewski (1972), Jan Urban (1962), Agnieszka Radwańska (1989), Danuta Lato (1963), Artur Boruc (1980), and Stefan Majewski (1956).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Stanisław Barańczak ranks 150. Before him are Lina Morgenstern (1830), Antoni Słonimski (1895), Ewa Lipska (1945), Maria Janion (1926), Leon Kruczkowski (1900), and Peter Hacks (1928). After him are Andrzej Stasiuk (1960), Paweł Huelle (1957), Jacek Dukaj (1974), Joanna Bator (1968), Blanka Lipińska (1985), and Mariusz Szczygieł (1966).

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