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WRITER

Yury Olesha

1899 - 1960

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Yury Karlovich Olesha (Russian: Ю́рий Ка́рлович Оле́ша, 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1899 – 10 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing acts that superficially send pro-Communist messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yury Olesha has received more than 64,261 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Yury Olesha is the 3,222nd most popular writer (down from 3,173rd in 2019), the 463rd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 427th in 2019) and the 62nd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yury Olesha ranks 3,222 out of 5,755Before him are Ryōtarō Shiba, Charles de Saint-Évremond, Alexis Piron, Martin Gray, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, and Aleksandr Tvardovsky. After him are Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus, Georgi Sava Rakovski, Elio Vittorini, Naomi Klein, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Yury Olesha ranks 145Before him are Li Lisan, Helge Ingstad, Pierre Victor Auger, C. S. Forester, Nevil Shute, and Ramon Novarro. After him are Aleksander Zawadzki, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Armand Salacrou, Jón Leifs, Silvestre Revueltas, and Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg. Among people deceased in 1960, Yury Olesha ranks 104Before him are Eric Temple Bell, Knud Enemark Jensen, Ioannis Georgiadis, Sigurd Hoel, Nevil Shute, and Margaret Sullavan. After him are Otto Ender, Semyon Lavochkin, Marcello Piacentini, Sibilla Aleramo, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, and Adone Zoli.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yury Olesha ranks 463 out of 1,083Before him are Ilya Kabakov (1933), Vladimir Kuts (1927), Leonid Bykov (1928), Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky (1914), Viktor Vekselberg (1957), and Boris Yefimov (1900). After him are Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Valentina Grizodubova (1909), Faina Melnik (1945), Demyan Bedny (1883), Yozhef Sabo (1940), and Kazimierz Górski (1921).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Yury Olesha ranks 62Before him are Leone Ginzburg (1909), Yevhen Hrebinka (1812), Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894), Maximilian Voloshin (1877), Rose Ausländer (1901), and Yury Vlasov (1935). After him are Demyan Bedny (1883), Ida Fink (1921), Oles Honchar (1918), Ilya Ilf (1897), Mikhail Koltsov (1898), and David Bergelson (1884).