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Aleksandr Tvardovsky

1910 - 1971

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Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (Russian: Александр Трифонович Твардовский, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsandr ˈtrʲifənəvʲɪtɕ tvɐrˈdofskʲɪj]; 21 June [O.S. 8 June] 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. During his editorship, the magazine published One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandr Tvardovsky has received more than 72,527 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Aleksandr Tvardovsky is the 3,306th most popular writer (down from 3,209th in 2019), the 1,221st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,159th in 2019) and the 149th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Aleksandr Tvardovsky ranks 3,306 out of 7,302. Before him are Mikhail Kuzmin, Mikayel Nalbandian, Jean Rotrou, Cecil Bødker, Angel Wagenstein, and Abdullah Goran. After him are Salvador Espriu, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Peter Mayle, Anna Sewell, Bernhard Grzimek, and Nossis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Aleksandr Tvardovsky ranks 169. Before him are Gus Hall, Helmut Kunz, George C. Homans, Ennio Flaiano, Cyril Cusack, and José María Guido. After him are Tomoyuki Tanaka, Arsenie Boca, Ángel Sanz Briz, Paulette Dubost, Lee Wallard, and Alfons Maria Stickler. Among people deceased in 1971, Aleksandr Tvardovsky ranks 111. Before him are Antonio Bacci, Naoya Shiga, Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Lester Germer, Gaito Gazdanov, and Ignazio Giunti. After him are Henri Tomasi, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Josef Košťálek, Armando Picchi, and Kathleen Lonsdale.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Aleksandr Tvardovsky ranks 1,221 out of 3,761. Before him are Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873), Artaxias III (-13), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), and Evald Ilyenkov (1924). After him are Alexander Kutepov (1882), Nikolai Noskov (1956), Sergei Shtemenko (1907), Igor Gouzenko (1919), Vladimir Basov (1923), and Edvard Radzinsky (1936).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Aleksandr Tvardovsky ranks 149. Before him are Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Evgeny Schwartz (1896), Agniya Barto (1906), Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854), Mikhail Kuzmin (1872), and Mikayel Nalbandian (1829). After him are Igor Gouzenko (1919), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Viktor Astafyev (1924), Philotheus of Pskov (1465), Boris Polevoy (1908), and Victor Pelevin (1962).

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