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Nikolai Gogol

1809 - 1852

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization, whereby a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so that the reader can gain new perspectives and see the world differently. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Gogol is the 81st most popular writer (down from 69th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Nikolai Gogol is most famous for his short story "The Nose," which is about a man who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has disappeared.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nikolai Gogol ranks 81 out of 7,302. Before him are Umberto Eco, Giacomo Casanova, Sappho, Toni Morrison, George R. R. Martin, and Lord Byron. After him are D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Abu Nuwas, Kālidāsa, Maxim Gorky, and Du Fu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1809, Nikolai Gogol ranks 5. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Lincoln, and Felix Mendelssohn. After him are William Ewart Gladstone, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1852, Nikolai Gogol ranks 2. Before him is Ada Lovelace. After him are Louis Braille, Friedrich Fröbel, Henry Clay, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Auguste de Marmont, Johan Gadolin, Augustus Pugin, Marie of Hesse-Kassel, and Ján Kollár.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 4 out of 1,365. Before him are Leon Trotsky (1879), Leonid Brezhnev (1906), and Hurrem Sultan (1502). After him are Golda Meir (1898), Edgar de Wahl (1867), Sergei Prokofiev (1891), Viktor Yanukovych (1950), John III Sobieski (1629), Stefania Turkewich (1898), Stepan Bandera (1909), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Nikolai Gogol ranks 1. After him are Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), Taras Shevchenko (1814), Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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