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Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

1938 - Today

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Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya (Russian: Людмила Стефановна Петрушевская; born 26 May 1938) is a Russian writer, novelist and playwright. She began her career writing short stories and plays, which the Soviet government often censored and published several well-respected prose works following perestroika. She is best known for her plays, novels, The Time: Night, and collections of short stories, notably There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby. In 2017, she published a memoir, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is the 3,420th most popular writer (down from 3,010th in 2019), the 1,207th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,114th in 2019) and the 143rd most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 3,420 out of 7,302. Before her are Pierre Jean Jouve, Hélène Berr, Tristan Bernard, Karl Ove Knausgård, Niccolò Tommaseo, and Alexis Piron. After her are Mariano Azuela, Rabia Balkhi, İbrahim Şinasi, Prince Henri of Orléans, Guzal Sitdikova, and Salvador Espriu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 269. Before her are Artavazd Peleshyan, Pat Buchanan, Klaus Hänsch, Alan Rees, Anatoliy Zlenko, and Michel Duchaussoy. After her are Behrouz Vossoughi, Severino Reija, Lawrence Block, Marita Lindahl, Karl Schranz, and Barry Newman.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 1,207 out of 3,761. Before her are Vasily Mishin (1917), Nikolai Noskov (1956), Margarita Terekhova (1942), Lyudmila Zhuravleva (1946), Mikhail Diterikhs (1874), and Eino Rahja (1885). After her are Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Agafya Grushetskaya (1663), Patriarch Sergius of Moscow (1867), Duchess Sophie of Prussia (1582), Pavel Batov (1897), and Vladimir Kappel (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya ranks 143. Before her are Alexander Bestuzhev (1797), Olena Teliha (1906), Yulian Semyonov (1931), Denis Davydov (1784), Aino Kallas (1878), and Alexander Sumarokov (1717). After her are Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Zacharias Werner (1768), Kir Bulychev (1934), Boris Polevoy (1908), Veijo Meri (1928), and Victor Pelevin (1962).

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