WRITER

Nina Berberova

1901 - 1993

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Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (Russian: Ни́на Никола́евна Бербе́рова; 26 July 1901 – 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nina Berberova has received more than 87,833 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Nina Berberova is the 1,662nd most popular writer (up from 1,746th in 2019), the 588th most popular biography from Russia (up from 643rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nina Berberova ranks 1,662 out of 7,302Before her are Alma Karlin, Ba Jin, Anagarika Dharmapala, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Egon Kisch, and Joseph Needham. After her are Walafrid Strabo, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Gampopa, Nicander, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, and Martin Opitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Nina Berberova ranks 85Before her are Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria, Ödön von Horváth, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Souvanna Phouma, Pier Giorgio Frassati, and Chen Yi. After her are Hendrik Verwoerd, Barbara Cartland, Franciszek Gajowniczek, Nicola Abbagnano, J. D. Bernal, and Maxwell D. Taylor. Among people deceased in 1993, Nina Berberova ranks 67Before her are Felice Borel, Pierre Bérégovoy, Eddie Constantine, Silvina Ocampo, Luciano Leggio, and Yen Chia-kan. After her are C. Northcote Parkinson, Meliton Kantaria, Kenneth E. Boulding, Desanka Maksimović, Salah Jadid, and Myrna Loy.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nina Berberova ranks 588 out of 3,761Before her are Jean Béraud (1849), Nikolai Ogarkov (1917), Anund Gårdske (1004), Sergei Belov (1944), Ulugh Muhammad (1405), and Mikhail Miloradovich (1771). After her are Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Yuri II of Vladimir (1188), Ludmilla Tourischeva (1952), Alexander Lebed (1950), Vladislav Volkov (1935), and Pavel Axelrod (1850).

Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nina Berberova ranks 68Before her are Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826), Aleksandr Kuprin (1870), Korney Chukovsky (1882), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), and Konstantin Simonov (1915). After her are Konstantin Paustovsky (1892), Alexander Belyaev (1884), John of Kronstadt (1829), Alexander Grin (1880), Konstantin Ushinsky (1823), and Alexandre Benois (1870).