WRITER

Tibor Sekelj

1912 - 1988

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Tibor Sekelj (14 February 1912 – 23 September 1988), also known as Székely Tibor according to Hungarian orthography, was a Hungarian born polyglot, explorer, author, and 'citizen of the world.' In 1986 he was elected a member of the Academy of Esperanto and an honorary member of the World Esperanto Association. Among his novels, travel books and essays, his novella Kumeŭaŭa, la filo de la ĝangalo ("Kumewawa, the son of the jungle"), a children's book about the life of Brazilian Indians, was translated into seventeen languages, and in 1987 it was voted best Children's book in Japan. In 2011 the European Esperanto Union declared 2012 "The Year of Tibor Sekelj" to honor the 100th anniversary of his birth. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tibor Sekelj is the 643rd most popular writer (up from 838th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Writer.

Tibor sekelj is most famous for being a Yugoslavian spy and the head of the Yugoslavian intelligence service.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tibor Sekelj ranks 643 out of 7,302. Before him are A. J. Cronin, Allen Ginsberg, Hermann Broch, Mikael Agricola, Hellanicus of Lesbos, and Giambattista Basile. After him are Anton Makarenko, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Laurence Sterne, Nestor the Chronicler, Klaus Mann, and Eugenio Montale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Tibor Sekelj ranks 34. Before him are Hanna Reitsch, Glenn T. Seaborg, Maria Mandl, Roy Sullivan, Sergiu Celibidache, and Edward Mills Purcell. After him are Leonid Kantorovich, Adolf Galland, Juan Pujol García, Patrick White, Julius Axelrod, and Woody Guthrie. Among people deceased in 1988, Tibor Sekelj ranks 18. Before him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, André Frédéric Cournand, Divine, Robert A. Heinlein, Isidor Isaac Rabi, and Chiang Ching-kuo. After him are Juan Pujol García, Trevor Howard, Klaus Fuchs, Roy Orbison, Chet Baker, and Hiroaki Sato.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Tibor Sekelj ranks 15 out of 418. Before him are Ferenc Szálasi (1897), Robert Fico (1964), Béla I of Hungary (1016), Rudolf von Laban (1879), Ivan Gašparovič (1941), and Juraj Jánošík (1688). After him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Maurice Benyovszky (1746), Vladimír Mečiar (1942), Ármin Vámbéry (1832), Jozef Gabčík (1912), and Vojtech Tuka (1880).

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Among WRITERS In Slovakia

Among writers born in Slovakia, Tibor Sekelj ranks 1. After him are Pavel Jozef Šafárik (1795), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Bálint Balassi (1554), Vladimír Clementis (1902), Imre Madách (1823), Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (1849), Alexander Dukhnovych (1803), Kálmán Mikszáth (1847), Jozef Miloslav Hurban (1817), Janko Matúška (1821), and Samo Chalupka (1812).

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