WRITER

Lydia Chukovskaya

1907 - 1996

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Lydia Korneyevna Chukovskaya (Russian: Ли́дия Корне́евна Чуко́вская, IPA: [ˈlʲidʲɪjə kɐrˈnʲejɪvnə tɕʊˈkofskəjə] ; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1907 – February 7, 1996) was a Soviet and Russian writer, poet, editor, publicist, memoirist and dissident. Her deeply personal writings reflect the human cost of Soviet repression, and she devoted much of her career to defending dissidents such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov. The daughter of the celebrated children's writer Korney Chukovsky, she was wife of scientist Matvei Bronstein, and a close associate and chronicler of the poet Anna Akhmatova. She was the first recipient, in 1990, of the new Andrei Sakharov Prize for Writer's Civic Courage. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lydia Chukovskaya is the 4,406th most popular writer (down from 4,177th in 2019), the 257th most popular biography from Finland (down from 206th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Finnish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 4,406 out of 7,302. Before her are Antonio Muñoz Molina, Konrad von Würzburg, Penelope Delta, Jakob Balde, Karl von Holtei, and FM-2030. After her are Jafar Jabbarly, Maurice Sachs, Kito Lorenc, Gregory David Roberts, Faizi, and Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 253. Before her are Yevgeniy Abalakov, Wanda Jakubowska, Petro Grigorenko, Bep van Klaveren, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, and Nikolai Gastello. After her are Sukhdev Thapar, Martín Marculeta, Edmond Delfour, Juan Carlos Corazzo, Chico Landi, and Henri De Deken. Among people deceased in 1996, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 204. Before her are Don McNeill, Eva Cassidy, Alger Hiss, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, and Gabriel Alonso. After her are Yun Chi-young, Aliki Vougiouklaki, William Bonin, Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Jon Pertwee, and Camilla Horn.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 257 out of 751. Before her are Erkki Tuomioja (1946), Oskar Gripenberg (1838), Rudolf Walden (1878), Eino Penttilä (1906), Toivo Kuula (1883), and Kustaa Pihlajamäki (1902). After her are Uma Aaltonen (1940), Nils Torvalds (1945), Alexi Laiho (1979), Matti Salminen (1945), Adolf Lindfors (1879), and Timo Mäkinen (1938).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Lydia Chukovskaya ranks 22. Before her are Pentti Linkola (1932), Paavo Haavikko (1931), Johannes Linnankoski (1869), August Ahlqvist (1826), Sofi Oksanen (1977), and Frans Michael Franzén (1772). After her are Uma Aaltonen (1940), Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), Rosa Liksom (1958), Tua Forsström (1947), Märta Tikkanen (1935), and Antti Tuuri (1944).

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