WRITER

Gaito Gazdanov

1903 - 1971

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Gaito Gazdanov (Russian: Гайто́ (Гео́ргий) Ива́нович Газда́нов, Gaito [Georgii] Ivanovich Gazdanov; Ossetian: Гæздæнты Бæппийы фырт Гайто, Gæzdænty Bæppijy fyrt Gajto; 6 December [O.S. 23 November] 1903 – 5 December 1971) was a Russian émigré writer of Ossetian descent, who lived in Paris. Gazdanov's first stories were published in France in 1926 in Russian. His novels An Evening with Claire (1929) and The Spectre of Alexander Wolf (1948) became his most well-known works, mentioned by writers Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin and Vladislav Khodasevich. Gazdanov was a member of the French Resistance in occupied France. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gaito Gazdanov is the 3,632nd most popular writer (down from 3,228th in 2019), the 1,273rd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,195th in 2019) and the 153rd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 3,632 out of 7,302. Before him are Bertus Aafjes, Brigitte Hamann, Erich Weinert, Hans Erich Nossack, Buhturi, and Otfrid of Weissenburg. After him are Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Olga Bergholz, Marcin Kromer, William Goldman, Fritz Reuter, and Fernando de Herrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 181. Before him are Joseph Cornell, Germán Busch, Orde Wingate, Cyril Jackson, Diana Vreeland, and Siegfried Kasche. After him are Márton Bukovi, Nikolay Cherkasov, Kea Bouman, Jimmy Ball, Ward Bond, and Ella Maillart. Among people deceased in 1971, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 129. Before him are Paul Bader, Earl Thomson, Princess Adelaide of Schaumburg-Lippe, Josef Košťálek, Étienne Gailly, and Chester Conklin. After him are John Dall, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Kathleen Lonsdale, David Sarnoff, Heinz Hopf, and Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 1,273 out of 3,761. Before him are Semyon Lavochkin (1900), Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868), Pavel Chichagov (1767), Sergey Mironov (1953), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), and Vladimir Etush (1922). After him are Olga Bergholz (1910), Evald Ilyenkov (1924), Boris Delaunay (1890), Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937), Yuli Daniel (1925), and Ivan Pyryev (1901).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Gaito Gazdanov ranks 153. Before him are Boris Polevoy (1908), Veijo Meri (1928), Victor Pelevin (1962), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), and Edvard Radzinsky (1936). After him are Olga Bergholz (1910), Yuli Daniel (1925), Nikolay Ogarev (1813), Andreï Makine (1957), Evgeny Schwartz (1896), and Pavel Bazhov (1879).

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