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Stefanie Zweig

1932 - 2014

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Stefanie Zweig (19 September 1932 – 25 April 2014) was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. The film adaptation of the novel (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stefanie Zweig is the 2,986th most popular writer (up from 3,191st in 2019), the 658th most popular biography from Poland (up from 705th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Polish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stefanie Zweig ranks 2,986 out of 7,302. Before her are Tom Sharpe, Willibald Pirckheimer, L. Sprague de Camp, Félix Fénéon, Dominique Lapierre, and Crates. After her are John Cleland, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Bruce Sterling, Friedrich von Lütke, Xanthus, and Heinrich Vogeler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Stefanie Zweig ranks 207. Before her are Parry O'Brien, Jerry Unser Jr., Bill Foulkes, Mancur Olson, Igor Kirillov, and Helmut Griem. After her are Bernhard Vogel, Blagoje Adžić, Katarina Taikon, Rudolph Rummel, Henri Namphy, and Christiane Kubrick. Among people deceased in 2014, Stefanie Zweig ranks 177. Before her are Helena Rakoczy, Alexander Imich, Lorna Wing, Juan Gelman, Pierre Bec, and James Rebhorn. After her are Horace Silver, Michael Sata, Rudolph Rummel, Viscera, Edward Clancy, and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Stefanie Zweig ranks 658 out of 1,694. Before her are Hans Stuck (1900), Kurt Sanderling (1912), Władysław Żmuda (1954), Emil Leon Post (1897), Tadeusz Kutrzeba (1885), and Leopold Okulicki (1898). After her are Salomon Morel (1919), Janusz Kusociński (1907), Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904), Martin Rathke (1793), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), and Józef Glemp (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Poland

Among writers born in Poland, Stefanie Zweig ranks 67. Before her are Sholem Asch (1880), Isaac Deutscher (1907), Adam Michnik (1946), Alexander Imich (1903), Aleksander Fredro (1793), and Zofia Posmysz (1923). After her are Marcin Bielski (1495), Bronisława Wajs (1908), Yakov Perelman (1882), Maria Wirtemberska (1768), Ernst Wiechert (1887), and Rutka Laskier (1929).

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