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Vladimír Holan

1905 - 1980

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Vladimír Holan (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvlaɟɪmiːr ˈɦolan]; 16 September 1905 – 31 March 1980) was a Czech poet. He was known for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimistic views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vladimír Holan is the 2,682nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,440th in 2019), the 578th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 531st in 2019) and the 19th most popular Czech Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Vladimír Holan ranks 2,682 out of 3,187Before him are Vilmos Apor, Marianne Cope, János Csernoch, Giorgio Marengo, Pope Primus of Alexandria, and Lojze Grozde. After him are Aldhelm, Hans Adolph Brorson, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Zacarias Kamwenho, Niccolò Albergati, and Anne Hutchinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Vladimír Holan ranks 249Before him are Kunio Maekawa, Antonio Berni, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Johannes Käbin, Walther Müller, and Erskine Hamilton Childers. After him are Anton Ackermann, Lilí Álvarez, Vera Panova, Franchot Tone, Ricardo Pérez Godoy, and René Lemoine. Among people deceased in 1980, Vladimír Holan ranks 203Before him are Jacob Talmon, Maurice Genevoix, Pedro Vallana, Alexander Nesmeyanov, Rostislav Alexeyev, and Marion Zinderstein. After him are Ilie Subășeanu, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Humberto Tozzi, Helmut Käutner, Louis Daquin, and Graham Sutherland.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Vladimír Holan ranks 578 out of 1,200Before him are Milan Dvořák (1934), Karel Teige (1900), Adolf Lang (1848), František Šafránek (1931), Rudolf Friml (1879), and Josephine Kablick (1787). After him are Petr Kellner (1964), Walter Schleger (1929), Arnold Pick (1851), Václav Mašek (1941), Ernst Falkbeer (1819), and Vladimír Zábrodský (1923).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, Vladimír Holan ranks 19Before him are Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Silesia (1204), Josef Beran (1888), Melchior Grodziecki (1584), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), and Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1864). After him are John Neumann (1811), Jan Graubner (1948), Karel Kašpar (1870), and Zecharias Frankel (1801).