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Jaan Kross

1920 - 2007

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Jaan Kross (19 February 1920 – 27 December 2007) was an Estonian writer. He won the 1995 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jaan Kross is the 1,383rd most popular writer (up from 1,405th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Estonia (up from 28th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Estonian Writer.

Jaan Kross is most famous for his novel "The Czar's Madman," which is a fictionalized account of the life of Grigori Rasputin.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jaan Kross ranks 1,383 out of 7,302. Before him are Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Sławomir Mrożek, Jean Chapelain, Deepak Chopra, and Arsen Kotsoyev. After him are James Patterson, Robert Browning, Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Péter Nádas, Erskine Caldwell, and Clive Cussler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Jaan Kross ranks 84. Before him are Setsuko Hara, Jack Warden, Arthur Hailey, Ivan Kozhedub, Franklin J. Schaffner, and Albert Barillé. After him are P. D. James, Gene Tierney, Dorothea Binz, Abe Lenstra, Karl Albrecht, and Maurice Bucaille. Among people deceased in 2007, Jaan Kross ranks 63. Before him are Ian Smith, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Ike Turner, Norman Mailer, Robert Adler, and Jupp Derwall. After him are Michel Serrault, Anna Nicole Smith, Joe Zawinul, Rudolf Arnheim, Magda Szabó, and Marcheline Bertrand.

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In Estonia

Among people born in Estonia, Jaan Kross ranks 27 out of 351. Before him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803), Ernst Öpik (1893), Jacob De la Gardie (1583), Andrus Ansip (1956), Johan Laidoner (1884), and Thomas Johann Seebeck (1770). After him are Otto von Kotzebue (1787), George Hackenschmidt (1877), Kersti Kaljulaid (1969), Lydia Koidula (1843), Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770), and Alexander Gorchakov (1798).

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Among WRITERS In Estonia

Among writers born in Estonia, Jaan Kross ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803). After him are Lydia Koidula (1843), Marie Under (1883), Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878), Jaan Kaplinski (1941), Betti Alver (1906), Balthasar Russow (1536), Carl Robert Jakobson (1841), Eduard Vilde (1865), Jakob Hurt (1839), and Hella Wuolijoki (1886).

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