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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 130,030 page views. Her biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is the 3,083rd most popular writer (up from 3,526th in 2019), the 1,101st most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,177th in 2019) and the 135th most popular Russian Writer.

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  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 3,083 out of 5,755. Before her are Gonzalo de Berceo, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, John Stott, Edvard Radzinsky, Guillén de Castro y Bellvis, and René Daumal. After her are Sergey Solovyov, Wilfred Owen, Dmitry Pisarev, John Evelyn, Ricarda Huch, and Delmira Agustini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 236. Before her are Herbert Achternbusch, Deniz Baykal, Aleksei Yuryevich German, Behrouz Vossoughi, Leonardo Favio, and Ingrid Caven. After her are Richard Anthony, Lindsay Kemp, Romano Fogli, Theodor Kallifatides, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, and Freddie Hubbard.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 1,101 out of 3,262. Before her are Alexey Venetsianov (1780), Grigory Shelikhov (1747), Vasily Gordov (1896), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Vladimir Lisin (1956), and Edvard Radzinsky (1936). After her are Maksim Purkayev (1894), Ivan Larionov (1830), Sergey Solovyov (1820), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Savely Kramarov (1934), and Söyembikä of Kazan (1516).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 135. Before her are Boris Pilnyak (1894), Vladimir Sorokin (1955), Boris Polevoy (1908), Denis Davydov (1784), Yulian Semyonov (1931), and Edvard Radzinsky (1936). After her are Sergey Solovyov (1820), Dmitry Pisarev (1840), Alexander Sumarokov (1717), Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Evgeny Schwartz (1896), and Alexander Bestuzhev (1797).

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