WRITER

Vasily Grossman

1905 - 1964

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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман; 12 December (29 November, Julian calendar) 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik ("Vasya the Chemist") because of his diligence as a student. Upon graduation, he took a job in Stalino (now Donetsk) in the Donets Basin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasily Grossman has received more than 679,175 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Vasily Grossman is the 458th most popular writer (up from 460th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 50th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Vasily Grossman is most famous for his book Life and Fate, which was not published in Russia until the late 1980s.

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  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.37

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Notable Works

Zhizn' i sud'ba
1980
Life and Fate
World War, 1939-1945
Completed in the late 1950s by its distinguished Russian author, this novel has been recognized as fiction on an epic scale: powerful, deeply moving, and devastating in its depiction of a world mutilated by war and ideological tyranny.
19864 / 5
An Armenian Sketchbook
2013
Zhiznʹ i sudʹba
World War, 1939-1945
Completed in the late 1950s by its distinguished Russian author, this novel has been recognized as fiction on an epic scale: powerful, deeply moving, and devastating in its depiction of a world mutilated by war and ideological tyranny.
19804 / 5
Vse techet
Soviet Union
19724 / 5

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasily Grossman ranks 458 out of 7,302. Before him are Boris Vian, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Jack Kerouac, Jacques Hébert, Héloïse, and Graham Greene. After him are Lesya Ukrainka, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Tibullus, Marguerite de Navarre, and Saint-John Perse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Vasily Grossman ranks 16. Before him are Dag Hammarskjöld, Christian Dior, Carl David Anderson, Faustina Kowalska, Mikhail Sholokhov, and Astrid of Sweden. After him are Maria von Trapp, Felix Bloch, Arthur Koestler, Marcel Lefebvre, Raymond Aron, and Guillermo Stábile. Among people deceased in 1964, Vasily Grossman ranks 13. Before him are Norbert Wiener, Leo Szilard, Ian Fleming, Rachel Carson, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, and James Franck. After him are Gerhard Domagk, Palmiro Togliatti, Gerrit Rietveld, Karl Polanyi, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Otto Grotewohl.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vasily Grossman ranks 59 out of 1,365. Before him are Semyon Timoshenko (1895), Baal Shem Tov (1700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), Vladimir II Monomakh (1053), and Petro Poroshenko (1965). After him are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Fanny Kaplan (1890), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), and Rodion Malinovsky (1898).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vasily Grossman ranks 11. Before him are Stanisław Lem (1921), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), and Sholem Aleichem (1859). After him are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Isaac Babel (1894), Bruno Schulz (1892), and Anton Makarenko (1888).

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