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Tavo Burat

1932 - 2009

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Tavo Burat (born Gustavo Buratti Zanchi, 22 May 1932 – 8 December 2009) was an Italian Waldensian writer and journalist. Burat spent much of his life defending the Piedmontese language island. Beginning in 1964, Burat was the secretary of an international association that defends languages and cultures threatened with extinction. He specifically focused on defending Piedmontese and Franco-Provençal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tavo Burat is the 1,077th most popular writer (up from 1,760th in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,834th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tavo Burat ranks 1,077 out of 7,302. Before him are Meša Selimović, Ilia Chavchavadze, Leigh Hunt, Thomas Pynchon, Bolesław Prus, and Michel Tournier. After him are Bernard-Henri Lévy, Edith Wharton, Pierre Louÿs, Ibn Sirin, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, and Dubravka Ugrešić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Tavo Burat ranks 77. Before him are Louis Malle, Alfredo Ferrari, Nam June Paik, Walter Gilbert, Vitold Fokin, and Thomas Klestil. After him are Corry Brokken, Sonny Liston, Tony Brooks, Rainer Weiss, Gyula Horn, and Harriet Andersson. Among people deceased in 2009, Tavo Burat ranks 43. Before him are John Updike, Gaafar Nimeiry, Leszek Kołakowski, Norman Borlaug, Natasha Richardson, and Ralf Dahrendorf. After him are Ephraim Katzir, Günther Rall, Edwin G. Krebs, Juan Almeida Bosque, Marek Edelman, and Patrick McGoohan.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Tavo Burat ranks 1,229 out of 5,161. Before him are Dino Risi (1916), Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511), Gaetano Scirea (1953), Liutprand of Cremona (922), Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (1825), and Oliviero Toscani (1942). After him are Domenico Veneziano (1410), Paolo Conte (1937), Peter Chrysologus (380), Giovanni Messe (1883), Francis IV, Duke of Modena (1779), and Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Tavo Burat ranks 87. Before him are Italo Svevo (1861), Lucius Accius (-170), Gaius Asinius Pollio (-76), Venantius Fortunatus (530), Giambattista Marino (1569), and Persius (34). After him are Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Quintus Tullius Cicero (-102), Rustichello da Pisa (1290), Chiara Lubich (1920), Vladimir Bartol (1903), and Asconius Pedianus (-9).

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