WRITER

Aleko Konstantinov

1863 - 1897

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Aleko Konstantinov (Bulgarian: Алеко Константинов) (1 January 1863 – 11 May 1897) (NS: 13 January 1863 – 23 May 1897) was a Bulgarian writer, best known for his character Bay Ganyo, one of the most popular characters in Bulgarian fiction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleko Konstantinov has received more than 86,760 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Aleko Konstantinov is the 4,099th most popular writer (down from 3,952nd in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 154th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Bulgarian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleko Konstantinov ranks 4,099 out of 7,302Before him are T. C. Boyle, Lilian Jackson Braun, Petrus Borel, Jean de Brunhoff, Sergei Mavrodi, and Izzat Ghazzawi. After him are Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Sándor Weöres, Yevgeny Petrov, Johann Fischart, Alexander of Abonoteichus, and Ahmed Rami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1863, Aleko Konstantinov ranks 112Before him are Ljubomir Davidović, Aurel Popovici, Arno Holz, Aleksey Krylov, Georg Marco, and Hermann Obrist. After him are Ioannis Frangoudis, Ellen Churchill Semple, Jāzeps Vītols, Josephine Diebitsch Peary, Anthony Hope, and Aleksandr Golovin. Among people deceased in 1897, Aleko Konstantinov ranks 54Before him are Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, Rutherford Alcock, Willem Roelofs, Effie Gray, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, and Heinrich von Stephan. After him are Robert Themptander, Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau, Carl Remigius Fresenius, Oscar Dickson, Alvan Graham Clark, and Mutsu Munemitsu.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Aleko Konstantinov ranks 169 out of 415Before him are Racho Petrov (1861), Dimitar Iliev Popov (1927), Peyo Yavorov (1878), Georgi Atanasov (1933), Nora Nova (1928), and Magdalena Georgieva (1962). After him are Lyuben Karavelov (1834), Dobri Bozhilov (1884), Konstantin Muraviev (1893), Lyuboslav Penev (1966), Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1913), and Dobromir Zhechev (1942).

Among WRITERS In Bulgaria

Among writers born in Bulgaria, Aleko Konstantinov ranks 22Before him are Ferdinand Bruckner (1891), Anton Pann (1796), Geo Milev (1895), Elisaveta Bagriana (1893), Petko Slaveykov (1827), and Peyo Yavorov (1878). After him are Lyuben Karavelov (1834), Pencho Slaveykov (1866), Dora Gabe (1888), Yordan Yovkov (1880), Kostas Varnalis (1884), and Stanislav Stratiev (1941).