WRITER

Elena Chizhova

1957 - Today

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Elena Semenovna Chizhova (Russian: Еле́на Семёновна Чижо́ва; born 1957) is a Russian writer, whose work is characterized by its reexamination of Russian history and society. She is best known for her 2009 novel Vremia zhenshchin, which won that year's Russian Booker Prize. Vremia zhenshchin was translated into English in 2012 as The Time of Women. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elena Chizhova is the 6,743rd most popular writer (up from 6,920th in 2019), the 2,707th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,865th in 2019) and the 288th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elena Chizhova ranks 6,743 out of 7,302. Before her are Toru Dutt, Nicholas Monsarrat, Màrius Serra, Christopher Moore, James Merrill, and Durs Grünbein. After her are Nagaru Tanigawa, Arkady Babchenko, James K. Morrow, Asko Parpola, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Alison Weir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Elena Chizhova ranks 663. Before her are Juan Carlos Arteche, Gaspar Llamazares, Nasser Shabani, Kathy Kreiner, Víctor Rangel, and Christopher Moore. After her are Maurice Kottelat, Aki Karvonen, Viktor Gavrikov, Tim Witherspoon, Paul Dini, and Vasyl Arkhypenko.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Elena Chizhova ranks 2,707 out of 3,761. Before her are Vyacheslav Malafeev (1979), Sergey Rodionov (1962), Rubén Gallego (1968), Ilia Kulik (1977), Lyubov Yegorova (1966), and Andrei Shleifer (1961). After her are Igor Andreev (1983), Alexander Borodai (1972), Arkady Babchenko (1977), Grigory Kiriyenko (1965), Valeri Broshin (1962), and Irina Belova (1968).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Elena Chizhova ranks 288. Before her are Leyla Aliyeva (1984), Masha Gessen (1967), Dmitry Bykov (1967), Olga Slavnikova (1957), Andrey Malakhov (1972), and Rubén Gallego (1968). After her are Arkady Babchenko (1977), Wladimir Kaminer (1967), Victor Shenderovich (1958), Guzel Yakhina (1977), Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (1989), and Elena Milashina (1978).

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