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WRITER

Andrei Platonov

1899 - 1951

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Andrei Platonovich Platonov (Russian: Андре́й Плато́нович Плато́нов, tr. ɐnˈdrʲej plɐˈtonəf, born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August [O.S. 16 August] 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Platonov has received more than 269,190 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Andrei Platonov is the 1,232nd most popular writer (up from 1,411th in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 459th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrei Platonov ranks 1,232 out of 5,755Before him are Nizar Qabbani, Bolesław Prus, Al-Khansa, Gottfried Benn, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, and Ljudevit Gaj. After him are Quintus Fabius Pictor, Yosa Buson, Babrius, Poul Anderson, Jerzy Kosiński, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Andrei Platonov ranks 62Before him are Georges Bidault, Philipp Bouhler, Leo Strauss, Burt Munro, Brassaï, and Ernst-Robert Grawitz. After him are Aksel Sandemose, Franz Jonas, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Fritz Bayerlein, Hans Jeschonnek, and Raoul Salan. Among people deceased in 1951, Andrei Platonov ranks 32Before him are Ivanoe Bonomi, Charles G. Dawes, Óscar Carmona, Robert J. Flaherty, Princess Hélène of Orléans, and Empress Teimei. After him are Willem Mengelberg, Élie Cartan, Émile Chartier, Fritz Thyssen, Sadegh Hedayat, and Soh Jaipil.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Platonov ranks 452 out of 3,262Before him are Valentin Pavlov (1937), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Sergei Taneyev (1856), Semyon Dezhnev (1605), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), and Mikhail Vrubel (1856). After him are Simeon Bekbulatovich (1600), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Vasily Surikov (1848), Leonid Kuravlyov (1936), Nikolay Shvernik (1888), and Yuri Oganessian (1933).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrei Platonov ranks 54Before him are Nathalie Sarraute (1900), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), Edith Södergran (1892), Alexander Ostrovsky (1823), and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817). After him are Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Rasul Gamzatov (1923), Alexander Afanasyev (1826), Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899), Alexander Grin (1880), and Viktor Suvorov (1947).