WRITER

Bella Akhmadulina

1937 - 2010

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Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (Russian: Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина, Tatar: Белла Әхәт кызы Әхмәдуллина; 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer, and translator, known for her apolitical writing stance. She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement. She was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bella Akhmadulina has received more than 136,104 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Bella Akhmadulina is the 2,021st most popular writer (down from 1,916th in 2019), the 732nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 697th in 2019) and the 87th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sad
1987
Svecha
1977
Fever & other new poems
Translations into English
1969
Sny o Gruzii
Russian poetry, Translations from Georgian, Literary collections
1977
The garden
Translations into English, Akhmadulina, Bella, 1937-
1990
Izbrannoe
Russian poetry
1988

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bella Akhmadulina ranks 2,021 out of 7,302. Before her are Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus, Matthieu Ricard, Sophron, Richard Brautigan, Tanya Savicheva, and Mariano José de Larra. After her are Giovanni Francesco Straparola, Julian Tuwim, Jean Starobinski, Cassius Longinus, Karen Armstrong, and Hallgrímur Pétursson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Bella Akhmadulina ranks 132. Before her are Félix Miélli Venerando, Carlo Mazzone, Jovan Divjak, Archie Shepp, Viacheslav Chornovil, and Guy Marchand. After her are Alberto Spencer, Amos Tversky, Aslan Usoyan, Carmen Pereira, Ned Beatty, and Monkey Punch. Among people deceased in 2010, Bella Akhmadulina ranks 91. Before her are Alexander Haig, Luis Molowny, André Kolingba, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Vladislav Ardzinba, and Ziba Ganiyeva. After her are Martin Sandberger, Andor Lilienthal, Eddie Fisher, Sigmar Polke, Lynn Redgrave, and Richard Holbrooke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Bella Akhmadulina ranks 732 out of 3,761. Before her are Maria Yudina (1899), Joseph Trumpeldor (1880), Irena Szewińska (1946), Georgy Shpagin (1897), Tanya Savicheva (1930), and Anna Sophia of Prussia (1527). After her are Alisa Freindlich (1934), Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), Vera Figner (1852), Lyudmila Chernykh (1935), Ivan Susanin (1501), and Fyodor Sologub (1863).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Bella Akhmadulina ranks 87. Before her are Marko Vovchok (1833), Valery Bryusov (1873), Denis Fonvizin (1745), Alexander Fadeyev (1901), Countess of Ségur (1799), and Tanya Savicheva (1930). After her are Fyodor Sologub (1863), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Afanasy Fet (1820), Vasily Aksyonov (1932), Rachel Bluwstein (1890), and Musa Cälil (1906).

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