1961 - Today
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.
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Among writers, Andrey Kurkov ranks 3,396 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1909 - 1998
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 3,390
1947 - 2020
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 3,391
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 3,392
1875 - 1936
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 3,393
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 3,394
698 - 756
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 3,395
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 3,396
1854 - 1932
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 3,397
1700 - 1773
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 3,398
1900 - 1973
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 3,399
1828 - 1894
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 3,400
1962 - Present
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 3,401
1805 - 1848
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 3,402
Among people born in 1961, Andrey Kurkov ranks 130. Before 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.
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.66
Rank: 124
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 125
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 126
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 127
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 128
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 129
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 130
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.29
Rank: 131
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 132
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 133
1961 - 2022
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 134
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.15
Rank: 135
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 136
Among people born in Russia, Andrey Kurkov ranks 1,225 out of 3,262. Before 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).
1956 - Present
HPI: 50.49
Rank: 1,219
1803 - 1869
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 1,220
1938 - 1986
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 1,221
1786 - 1862
HPI: 50.47
Rank: 1,222
1527 - 1591
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 1,223
1902 - 1965
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 1,224
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 1,225
1942 - Present
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 1,226
1923 - 1987
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 1,227
1900 - 1973
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 1,228
1928 - 2005
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 1,229
1962 - Present
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 1,230
1939 - 1993
HPI: 50.42
Rank: 1,231
Among writers born in Russia, Andrey Kurkov ranks 156. Before 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).
1800 - 1844
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 150
1795 - 1826
HPI: 50.80
Rank: 151
1937 - 2018
HPI: 50.75
Rank: 152
1910 - 1975
HPI: 50.58
Rank: 153
1798 - 1831
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 154
1803 - 1869
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 155
1961 - Present
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 156
1900 - 1973
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 157
1962 - Present
HPI: 50.43
Rank: 158
1744 - 1818
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 159
1879 - 1950
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 160
1703 - 1769
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 161
1829 - 1866
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 162