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Arthur Adamov

1908 - 1970

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Arthur Adamov (23 August 1908 – 15 March 1970) was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Arthur Adamov is the 867th most popular writer (down from 729th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Russia (down from 244th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Russian Writer.

Arthur Adamov is most famous for his play Les Âmes mortes, which was written in 1949.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Arthur Adamov ranks 867 out of 7,302. Before him are Yanka Kupala, Stephen Covey, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Vātsyāyana, Sam Shepard, and Zhang Sanfeng. After him are Periander, Douglas Adams, Georg Brandes, Thietmar of Merseburg, Thomas Harris, and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Arthur Adamov ranks 48. Before him are Tameo Ide, Joseph McCarthy, Werner von Haeften, Cesare Pavese, William Saroyan, and Carole Lombard. After him are Mercè Rodoreda, Lita Grey, Rex Harrison, Chivu Stoica, Balthus, and Stéphane Grappelli. Among people deceased in 1970, Arthur Adamov ranks 41. Before him are Frances Farmer, Władysław Anders, Andrey Yeryomenko, Francis Peyton Rous, John Dos Passos, and Bourvil. After him are Fritz Perls, Lázaro Cárdenas, Nina Ricci, Isdal Woman, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, and Pedro Cea.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Arthur Adamov ranks 290 out of 3,761. Before him are Fyodor Tolbukhin (1894), Igor Smirnov (1941), Ivan Silayev (1930), Nikolay Semyonov (1896), Oleg Antonov (1906), and Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855). After him are Alexandre Koyré (1892), Boris Shaposhnikov (1882), Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Natalya Naryshkina (1651), Varlam Shalamov (1907), and Andrey Markov (1856).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Arthur Adamov ranks 30. Before him are Ivan Krylov (1769), Marina Tsvetaeva (1892), Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Alexander Blok (1880), and Nikolay Karamzin (1766). After him are Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843), Varlam Shalamov (1907), Viktor Shklovsky (1893), Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Henri Troyat (1911), and Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943).

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