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Lina Kostenko

1930 - Today

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Lina Vasylivna Kostenko (Ukrainian: Ліна Василівна Костенко; born 19 March 1930) is a Ukrainian poet, journalist, writer, publisher, and former Soviet dissident. A founder and leading representative of the Sixtiers poetry movement, Kostenko has been described as one of Ukraine's foremost poets and credited with reviving Ukrainian-language lyric poetry. Kostenko has been granted numerous honours, including an honorary professorship at Kyiv Mohyla Academy, honorary doctorates of Lviv and Chernivtsi Universities, the Shevchenko National Prize, and the Legion of Honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lina Kostenko is the 1,682nd most popular writer (up from 1,829th in 2019), the 241st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 268th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lina Kostenko ranks 1,682 out of 7,302. Before her are Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Dean Koontz, James Oliver Curwood, Akiyuki Nosaka, Vita Sackville-West, and Varro Atacinus. After her are Ahmed Shawqi, Gil Vicente, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Ryū Murakami, Jacopo Sannazaro, and Anne Desclos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Lina Kostenko ranks 132. Before her are Barbara, Ilon Wikland, Don L. Lind, Sonny Rollins, Stephen Smale, and Akiyuki Nosaka. After her are John Romita Sr., Eugenio Castellotti, Igor Netto, Ornette Coleman, Michel Rocard, and Irinej, Serbian Patriarch.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lina Kostenko ranks 241 out of 1,365. Before her are Nikolai Kapustin (1937), Michael Rostovtzeff (1870), Paul Muni (1895), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Lyudmila Rudenko (1904), and Sigismund Korybut (1395). After her are Angelica Balabanoff (1878), Leonid Pasternak (1862), Sergei Winogradsky (1856), Andriy Melnyk (1890), Marian Jaworski (1926), and Abram Ioffe (1880).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Lina Kostenko ranks 31. Before her are Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873), Stanisław Jerzy Lec (1909), Ivan Kotliarevsky (1769), and Vladimir Korolenko (1853). After her are Adam Zagajewski (1945), David Burliuk (1882), Dobrodeia of Kiev (1101), Naftali Herz Imber (1856), Arseny Tarkovsky (1907), and Mikhail Artsybashev (1878).

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