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Anna Akhmatova

1889 - 1966

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Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June [O.S. 11 June] 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was a Russian and Soviet poet, one of the most significant of the 20th century. She reappeared as a voice of Russian poetry during World War II. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965 and 1966. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror. Her style, characterised by its economy and emotional restraint, was strikingly original and distinctive to her contemporaries. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Akhmatova is the 267th most popular writer (down from 255th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Anna Akhmatova is most famous for her poetry.

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Among writers, Anna Akhmatova ranks 267 out of 7,302. Before her are Herta Müller, Dale Carnegie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jordanes, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon. After her are Sallust, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Snorri Sturluson, Jami, Arthur C. Clarke, and Quintilian.

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Among people born in 1889, Anna Akhmatova ranks 13. Before her are Edgar Adrian, Jawaharlal Nehru, Edwin Hubble, Philip Noel-Baker, Paul Karrer, and Ante Pavelić. After her are Vaslav Nijinsky, Arnold J. Toynbee, Igor Sikorsky, Thomas Midgley Jr., Manuel II of Portugal, and Claude Rains. Among people deceased in 1966, Anna Akhmatova ranks 4. Before her are Walt Disney, André Breton, and Buster Keaton. After her are Margaret Sanger, Peter Debye, Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, Sepp Dietrich, Jean Arp, Sayyid Qutb, and Giuseppe Farina.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anna Akhmatova ranks 28 out of 1,365. Before her are Stanisław Lem (1921), Viktor Yushchenko (1954), Leonid Kuchma (1938), Élie Metchnikoff (1845), Ivan Mazepa (1639), and Stanisław Leszczyński (1677). After her are Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), Kliment Voroshilov (1881), Nestor Makhno (1888), Vaslav Nijinsky (1889), and Anne of Kiev (1025).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Anna Akhmatova ranks 7. Before her are Nikolai Gogol (1809), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), and Stanisław Lem (1921). After her are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), and Ivan Franko (1856).

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