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Vasyl Stus

1938 - 1985

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Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 6, 1938 – September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vasyl Stus has received more than 157,289 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Vasyl Stus is the 1,776th most popular writer (up from 2,091st in 2019), the 255th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 295th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasyl Stus ranks 1,776 out of 7,302. Before him are Magnús Scheving, Ted Hughes, Felice Orsini, Miguel Hernández, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, and Aryadeva. After him are John Banville, Patricia Cornwell, Väinö Linna, Tonino Guerra, Juan Donoso Cortés, and Lajos Zilahy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Vasyl Stus ranks 132. Before him are Vakhtang Kikabidze, Marien Ngouabi, Hermann Nitsch, Benjamin Mkapa, Yuri Temirkanov, and Anne Perry. After him are Shotaro Ishinomori, Karel Svoboda, Patrick Bauchau, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, Jan Assmann, and Nayef Hawatmeh. Among people deceased in 1985, Vasyl Stus ranks 64. Before him are David Byron, Herbert Bayer, Cus D'Amato, Ricky Nelson, Afet İnan, and Jean-Marie Loret. After him are Coral Buttsworth, Philly Joe Jones, Michael Redgrave, Kiki Camarena, Wolfgang Reitherman, and Alfredo Foni.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vasyl Stus ranks 255 out of 1,365. Before him are David Burliuk (1882), Igor Belanov (1960), Adam Zagajewski (1945), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Ludwik Fleck (1896), and Alexander Marinesko (1913). After him are Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), Vsevolod II of Kiev (1104), Igor Markevitch (1912), Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880), Zbigniew Cybulski (1927), and Ida Kamińska (1899).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vasyl Stus ranks 36. Before him are Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Vladimir Korolenko (1853), Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), David Burliuk (1882), and Adam Zagajewski (1945). After him are Lina Kostenko (1930), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), Vasyl Sukhomlynsky (1918), Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875), Sholem Schwarzbard (1886), and Ahad Ha'am (1856).

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