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Zbigniew Herbert

1924 - 1998

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Zbigniew Herbert (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈxɛrbɛrt] ; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume titled Chord of Light was issued in 1956), soon after he voluntarily ceased submitting most of his works to official Polish government publications. He resumed publication in the 1980s, initially in the underground press. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zbigniew Herbert is the 2,253rd most popular writer (down from 1,860th in 2019), the 329th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 276th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among writers, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 2,253 out of 7,302. Before him are Ana María Matute, Karlheinz Deschner, Uri Avnery, Benjamin Péret, Giuseppe Giacosa, and Fred Uhlman. After him are Ilse Aichinger, Dacia Maraini, Sebastian Haffner, Giovanni Botero, Thor Vilhjálmsson, and Krishna Sobti.

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Among people born in 1924, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 143. Before him are Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal, Lubomír Štrougal, Shintaro Abe, Jacques Vergès, Karlheinz Deschner, and Tatiana Nikolayeva. After him are Dinah Washington, Bud Powell, Allan Edwall, Thomas J. Hudner Jr., Lefter Küçükandonyadis, and Cicely Tyson. Among people deceased in 1998, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 95. Before him are Muriel Humphrey Brown, César Baldaccini, Momoko Kōchi, J. T. Walsh, Lucio Battisti, and Christian Mortensen. After him are Juan José Nogués, Patricia Hayes, Ed Ablowich, John Derek, E. G. Marshall, and Georgy Sviridov.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 329 out of 1,365. Before him are Salo Flohr (1908), Alexius Meinong (1853), Yaakov Dori (1899), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Mark Taimanov (1926), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880). After him are Tamara Smirnova (1935), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), and Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Zbigniew Herbert ranks 42. Before him are Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), Mikhail Artsybashev (1878), Ahad Ha'am (1856), Vasyl Stus (1938), Vsevolod Garshin (1855), and Tadeusz Borowski (1922). After him are Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Mikołaj Rej (1505), and Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875).

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