WRITER

Andrey Kurkov

1961 - Today

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Andrey Yuryevich Kurkov (Ukrainian: Андрій Юрійович Курков; Russian: Андре́й Ю́рьевич Курко́в; born 23 April 1961 in Leningrad, USSR) is a Ukrainian author and public intellectual who writes in Russian. He is the author of 19 novels, including the bestselling Death and the Penguin, nine books for children, and about 20 documentary, fiction and TV movie scripts. His work is currently translated into 37 languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Persian and Hebrew, and published in 65 countries. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrey Kurkov has received more than 177,533 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Andrey Kurkov is the 2,266th most popular writer (up from 3,384th in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,221st in 2019) and the 100th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Case of the General's Thumb
2004
Penguin Lost
2004
Matter of Death and Life
2006
Prii︠a︡telʹ pokoĭnika
2000
Li︠u︡bimai︠a︡ pesni︠a︡ kosmopolita
1998
CASE OF THE GENERAL'S THUMB; TRANS. BY GEORGE BIRD

Page views of Andrey Kurkovs by language

Over the past year Andrey Kurkov has had the most page views in the with 38,423 views, followed by French (23,629), and Ukrainian (14,472). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Interlingue (109.54%), Hungarian (85.46%), and Simple English (54.96%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrey Kurkov ranks 2,266 out of 7,302. Before him are Alois Jirásek, Inger Christensen, Saigyō, Umberto Saba, Jeppe Aakjær, and Konstantin Balmont. After him are Patrick Pearse, Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh, Đura Jakšić, Edward Bunker, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and August von Platen-Hallermünde.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Andrey Kurkov ranks 91. Before him are Kim Tok-hun, Abdourahamane Tchiani, Elizabeth McGovern, Lea Thompson, Ralph Macchio, and Liam Cunningham. After him are Jacky Cheung, Ignazio Cassis, Jonas Jonasson, Dylan McDermott, Franky Van der Elst, and Sergei Aleinikov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrey Kurkov ranks 824 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksey Batalov (1928), Yakov Pavlov (1917), Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886), Konstantin Balmont (1867), Vasily Tropinin (1776), and Alexander von Middendorff (1815). After him are Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Konstantin Melnikov (1890), Sergey Taboritsky (1897), Kurt Hensel (1861), Talabuga (1300), and Ivan Mosjoukine (1889).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrey Kurkov ranks 100. Before him are Eduard Uspensky (1937), Samuil Marshak (1887), Arsen Kotsoyev (1872), Arkady Gaidar (1904), Ğabdulla Tuqay (1886), and Konstantin Balmont (1867). After him are Sergei Nilus (1862), Leah Goldberg (1911), Andrei Voznesensky (1933), Aino Kallas (1878), Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714), and Nikolay Kostomarov (1817).

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