WRITER

Anna Akhmatova

1889 - 1966

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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Akhmatova has received more than 1,230,181 page views. Her biography is available in 101 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Anna Akhmatova is the 255th most popular writer (down from 236th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 21st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Anna Akhmatova is most famous for her poetry.

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Notable Works

Beg vremeni
1965
Selected Poems
Government publications
1969
Stikhotvoreniya i poemy
1952
Stikhotvorenii︠a︡
1958
Rekviem
1963
Poems
Poetry
Presents works of the Russian poet, written between 1909 and 1961, accompanied by explanatory notes and biographical data
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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anna Akhmatova ranks 255 out of 7,302. Before her are Valmiki, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Peter Handke, Kālidāsa, Nelly Sachs, and François Mauriac. After her are Shota Rustaveli, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Geoffrey Chaucer, Sallust, Johannes V. Jensen, and Svetlana Alliluyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Anna Akhmatova ranks 11. Before her are António de Oliveira Salazar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Paul Karrer, and Ante Pavelić. After her are Arnold J. Toynbee, Vaslav Nijinsky, Manuel II of Portugal, Igor Sikorsky, Idris of Libya, and Gabriel Marcel. Among people deceased in 1966, Anna Akhmatova ranks 5. Before her are Walt Disney, André Breton, Buster Keaton, and Alberto Giacometti. After her are Georges Lemaître, Sayyid Qutb, Sergei Korolev, Ken Miles, Sepp Dietrich, Chester W. Nimitz, and Jean Arp.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anna Akhmatova ranks 23 out of 1,365. Before her are Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Sviatoslav I of Kiev (942), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Stanisław Leszczyński (1677), and Stefania Turkewich (1898). After her are Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ludwig von Mises (1881), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), and Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1916).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Anna Akhmatova ranks 7. Before her are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Joseph Conrad (1857), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), and Mikhail Bulgakov (1891). After her are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Vasily Grossman (1905), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880).

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