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Merab Kostava

1939 - 1989

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Merab Kostava (Georgian: მერაბ კოსტავა) (May 26, 1939 – October 13, 1989) was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Merab Kostava has received more than 57,802 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Merab Kostava is the 4,200th most popular writer (down from 3,934th in 2019), the 156th most popular biography from Georgia (down from 139th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Georgian Writer.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

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  • 2.49

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Merab Kostava ranks 4,200 out of 5,755Before him are Hart Crane, Petras Cvirka, Reiner Kunze, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Zhang Jie, and Maeve Binchy. After him are Karl von Holtei, Walter J. Ong, Eugenio Espejo, Hervé Guibert, Etgar Keret, and Felix Dahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Merab Kostava ranks 317Before him are Robert Herbin, Wilhelmina Cooper, Joe Clark, Charles Geschke, Ernie Davis, and Maeve Binchy. After him are Litokwa Tomeing, John Hopcroft, Abdelmajid Chetali, Theo Waigel, Rustam Ibragimbekov, and Yves Boisset. Among people deceased in 1989, Merab Kostava ranks 175Before him are Hilmar Baunsgaard, Alvin Ailey, Kazimierz Sabbat, Richard Quine, János Farkas, and John J. McCloy. After him are Ján Cikker, Roy Eldridge, Manuel Rosas, Yannis Tsarouchis, Don Revie, and Anton Diffring.

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In Georgia

Among people born in Georgia, Merab Kostava ranks 156 out of 342Before him are Edvard Mirzoyan (1921), Ramaz Shengelia (1957), Boris Paichadze (1915), Haykanoush Danielyan (1893), Joseph Orbeli (1887), and Davit Guramishvili (1705). After him are Otar Korkia (1923), Otar Chiladze (1933), Vasily Abaev (1900), Givi Javakhishvili (1912), Marlen Khutsiev (1925), and Benjamin Markarian (1913).

Among WRITERS In Georgia

Among writers born in Georgia, Merab Kostava ranks 24Before him are Grigol Abashidze (1914), Galaktion Tabidze (1891), Alexander Kazbegi (1848), Mikheil Javakhishvili (1880), Irakli Abashidze (1909), and Davit Guramishvili (1705). After him are Otar Chiladze (1933), Besiki (1750), Iakob Tsurtaveli (500), Ghazaros Aghayan (1840), Giorgi Leonidze (1899), and Ekaterine Gabashvili (1851).