WRITER

Rubén Gallego

1968 - Today

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Rubén David González Gallego (Russian: Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего; born 20 September 1968) is a Russian writer of Spanish ancestry. After being born with severe cerebral palsy in the Soviet Union, Gallego was separated from his family at the age of one. He was sent to a state orphanage, because his grandfather, Ignacio Gallego, a Spanish Communist politician (General Secretary of the Spanish Communist Party since 1984), was ashamed of his birth disorder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rubén Gallego has received more than 34,164 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Rubén Gallego is the 6,872nd most popular writer (down from 6,128th in 2019), the 2,817th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,413th in 2019) and the 291st most popular Russian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 34k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

White on Black
Fiction, general
2006
WHITE ON BLACK
2006
Ajedrez
2005
White on Black
2007
They Called Us "Lucky"
Asia, history
2021
Blanco sobre negro
2003

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rubén Gallego ranks 6,872 out of 7,302. Before him are Brigitte Vasallo, Kathrin Schmidt, Scott Westerfeld, Roya Hakakian, Valerie Plame, and George Monbiot. After him are Petr Zelenka, Elizabeth Kostova, Dora Marsden, Rachel Cusk, Peter Schiff, and Elena Milashina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Rubén Gallego ranks 629. Before him are Jesús Rollán, Sorin Cîmpeanu, Sebastian Schipper, Ion Vlădoiu, Robert Gant, and Teppo Numminen. After him are Brian d'Arcy James, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Jeff Agoos, Dave Abbruzzese, Kristen Cloke, and Alberto Belsué.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Rubén Gallego ranks 2,817 out of 3,761. Before him are Maxim Marinin (1977), Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (1982), Dmitri Bulykin (1979), Liudmila Samsonova (1998), Veronika Skvortsova (1960), and Petr Pavlensky (1984). After him are Anita Tsoy (1971), Vladimir Krylov (1964), Sergey Kovalev (1983), Diniyar Bilyaletdinov (1985), Anna Kalinskaya (1998), and Alexei Zhamnov (1970).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Rubén Gallego ranks 291. Before him are Arkady Babchenko (1977), Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (1989), Andrey Malakhov (1972), Fedor Samokhin (1918), Olga Slavnikova (1957), and Wladimir Kaminer (1967). After him are Elena Milashina (1978), Alexey Dreev (1969), Elena Chizhova (1957), Polina Zherebtsova (1985), Maria Stepanova (1972), and Kelly Murphy (null).

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