WRITER

Nina Berberova

1901 - 1993

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Nina Nikolayevna Berberova (Russian: Ни́на Никола́евна Бербе́рова; 26 July 1901 – 26 September 1993) was a Russian writer who chronicled the lives of anti-communist Russian refugees in Paris in her short stories and novels. She visited post-Soviet Russia. Her 1965 revision of the Constance Garnett translation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with Leonard J. Kent is considered the best translation so far by the academic Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nina Berberova is the 2,235th most popular writer (down from 1,661st in 2019), the 770th most popular biography from Russia (down from 588th in 2019) and the 91st most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Nina Berberova ranks 2,235 out of 7,302. Before her are Frédéric Ozanam, Joseph Kessel, Suzanne Collins, Rudolf Rocker, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, and Claude Farrère. After her are Pierre Klossowski, Clive Barker, Wanda Wasilewska, Meleager of Gadara, Quadratus of Athens, and Aspazija.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Nina Berberova ranks 113. Before her are Carlo Biotti, George Gallup, Chen Yi, Princess Yolanda of Savoy, Michel Leiris, and Maxwell D. Taylor. After her are Fred Uhlman, Jean Prouvé, Otto Wächter, Manuel Urrutia Lleó, Robert J. Van de Graaff, and Wolfgang Schmieder. Among people deceased in 1993, Nina Berberova ranks 87. Before her are Luciano Leggio, Marian Anderson, E. P. Thompson, C. Northcote Parkinson, Bruno Rossi, and Christian Metz. After her are József Antall, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Matthew Ridgway, Héctor Lavoe, Wilhelm Gliese, and Kenneth E. Boulding.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nina Berberova ranks 770 out of 3,761. Before her are Aleksandra Pakhmutova (1929), Ivan Susanin (1501), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), Arkady Gaidar (1904), Nikolai Voznesensky (1903), and Ivan Sechenov (1829). After her are Vasily Tropinin (1776), Anna Kournikova (1981), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), Pyotr Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky (1827), Ludmila Savelyeva (1942), and Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova (1743).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Nina Berberova ranks 91. Before her are Eduard Uspensky (1937), Alexander Belyaev (1884), Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904), Andrey Kurkov (1961), Sergei Dovlatov (1941), and Arkady Gaidar (1904). After her are Olga Rozanova (1886), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Afanasy Fet (1820), Musa Cälil (1906), Andrei Voznesensky (1933), and Vasily Aksyonov (1932).

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