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Vizma Belševica

1931 - 2005

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Vizma Belševica (May 30, 1931 – August 6, 2005) was a Latvian poet, writer, and translator. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vizma Belševica is the 3,065th most popular writer (up from 3,610th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Latvia (up from 99th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Latvian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vizma Belševica ranks 3,065 out of 7,302. Before her are Juan Ruiz, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Maksim Bahdanovič, Şihabetdin Märcani, Walter Pater, and Simon of Kéza. After her are René Daumal, Jean Rhys, Karel Havlíček Borovský, Miodrag Bulatović, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Stephenie Meyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Vizma Belševica ranks 224. Before her are Moshé Mizrahi, Dominique Lapierre, Andrew Hill, Scotty Moore, Bernard Francis Law, and Alda Merini. After her are Nick Bollettieri, Ann E. Todd, Mukaghali Makatayev, E. L. Doctorow, Krzysztof Komeda, and Jean-Jacques Marcel. Among people deceased in 2005, Vizma Belševica ranks 130. Before her are Ronald Golias, Suzanne Flon, Zurab Zhvania, Alexander Gomelsky, Zoran Mušič, and Lazar Berman. After her are Gary Bertini, Pál Losonczi, Elisabeth Domitien, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Andrea Dworkin, and Sergio Endrigo.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vizma Belševica ranks 81 out of 323. Before her are Edgars Rinkēvičs (1973), Alexander Kovalevsky (1840), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), and Alexander von Keyserling (1815). After her are Lūcija Garūta (1902), Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Jānis Balodis (1881), Nikolay Lossky (1870), and Yevgeny Miller (1867).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Vizma Belševica ranks 9. Before her are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Aspazija (1865), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), and Vilis Lācis (1904). After her are Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), Krišjānis Barons (1835), Garlieb Merkel (1769), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), and Anna Brigadere (1861).

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