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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 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Andrey Kurkov is the 3,396th most popular writer (up from 3,756th in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,243rd in 2019) and the 156th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Andrey Kurkov ranks 3,396 out of 5,755Before him are Eric Ambler, Mirza Khazar, Marc Levy, Ramiro de Maeztu, David Crystal, and Wang Changling. After him are Arnošt Muka, Stanisław Konarski, Mikhail Isakovsky, Maria Deraismes, Victor Pelevin, and Mastoureh Ardalan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Andrey Kurkov ranks 130Before him are Zoran Tegeltija, Walter Mazzarri, John Corbett, Graham McTavish, Leyla Zana, and Marc Levy. After him are Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Timur Bekmambetov, Ronnie Brunswijk, Kazuki Takahashi, Vladimir Potanin, and Sion Sono.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrey Kurkov ranks 1,225 out of 3,262Before him are Nikolai Noskov (1956), Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803), Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786), Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527), and Boris Barnet (1902). After him are Natalia Gutman (1942), Vladimir Basov (1923), Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Alexander Gomelsky (1928), Victor Pelevin (1962), and Yuri Bezmenov (1939).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrey Kurkov ranks 156Before him are Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800), Kondraty Ryleyev (1795), Andrei Bitov (1937), Olga Bergholz (1910), Anton Delvig (1798), and Vladimir Odoyevsky (1803). After him are Mikhail Isakovsky (1900), Victor Pelevin (1962), Nikolay Novikov (1744), Pavel Bazhov (1879), Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), and Mikayel Nalbandian (1829).