WRITER

Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

1938 - Today

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Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing short stories and plays, which were often censored by the Soviet government, and following perestroika, published a number of well-respected works of prose. She is best known for her plays, novels, including The Time: Night, and collections of short stories, notably There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya has received more than 136,625 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is the 3,010th most popular writer (up from 3,072nd in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,099th in 2019) and the 130th most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Skazka pro azbuku
1997
Sobranie sochinenii v pyati tomakh
1996
Schastlivȳe koshki
Fiction
2001
Nastoyashchie skazki
Russian Short stories
1997
Taina doma
1995
Nastoyashchiye skazki
1999

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 3,010 out of 7,302. Before her are Roy Medvedev, Gasparo Contarini, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Vincent Voiture, Lars Norén, and Nathan Alterman. After her are Caroline Graham, Anšlavs Eglītis, Thomas of Britain, Titus Burckhardt, Michel Ocelot, and Juan Gelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 224. Before her are Venedikt Yerofeyev, Michel Duchaussoy, Behrouz Vossoughi, McCoy Tyner, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, and Michael Löwy. After her are José Torres, Andrei Amalrik, Theodor Kallifatides, Roger Hunt, Jean Rollin, and Anatoly Marchenko.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 1,114 out of 3,761. Before her are Gamzat-bek (1789), Alexei Starobinsky (1948), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Oleg Kalugin (1934), Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), and Vladimir Atlasov (1661). After her are Carl Jaenisch (1813), Vsevolod Bobrov (1922), Vera Alentova (1942), Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia (1877), Andrei Amalrik (1938), and Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 130. Before her are Denis Davydov (1784), Leonid Leonov (1899), Dmitry Likhachov (1906), Venedikt Yerofeyev (1938), Lev Rubinstein (1947), and Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800). After her are Andrei Amalrik (1938), Sergey Solovyov (1820), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Olena Teliha (1906), and Viktor Yerofeyev (1947).

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