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Ruth Klüger

1931 - 2020

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Ruth Klüger (30 October 1931 – 6 October 2020) was Professor Emerita of German Studies at the University of California, Irvine and a Holocaust survivor. She was the author of the bestseller Weiter leben: Eine Jugend  (English translation by the author: Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered) about her childhood in Vienna and in Nazi concentration camps. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ruth Klüger is the 4,945th most popular writer (up from 5,180th in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from Austria (up from 921st in 2019) and the 66th most popular Austrian Writer.

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Among writers, Ruth Klüger ranks 4,945 out of 7,302. Before her are Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Dharamvir Bharati, Adolf Brand, Russell Kirk, Dmitry Glukhovsky, and Françoise Mallet-Joris. After her are Dagmar Lange, Carrie Nation, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Robert Lowell, Aagje Deken, and Juan Zorrilla de San Martín.

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Among people born in 1931, Ruth Klüger ranks 398. Before her are Mark Midler, Naci Erdem, Tamara Rylova, Hal Needham, Irwin Winkler, and Eva Bosáková. After her are Valeriu Bularca, Shirley Verrett, Ferenc Szojka, Ángel Atienza, Luciano Tesi, and Mordecai Richler. Among people deceased in 2020, Ruth Klüger ranks 466. Before her are Júlia Sigmond, Jacques Beurlet, Gulnazar Keldi, John Ericson, Ivan Král, and Borislav Stanković. After her are Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Silva Batuta, Yehoshua Kenaz, Kansai Yamamoto, Birol Ünel, and Rudi Hoffmann.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Ruth Klüger ranks 896 out of 1,424. Before her are Marie Jahoda (1907), Christian Kern (1966), Marianne Stokes (1855), Josef Feistmantl (1939), Leopold Lindtberg (1902), and Ruth Maier (1920). After her are Leonie Rysanek (1926), Anton Janda (1904), Rosa Mayreder (1858), Erwin Wurm (1954), Heinrich Messner (1939), and Kiki Kogelnik (1935).

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Among WRITERS In Austria

Among writers born in Austria, Ruth Klüger ranks 66. Before her are Herbert W. Franke (1927), Albert Ehrenstein (1886), Ava (1060), H. C. Artmann (1921), Géza Csáth (1887), and Ruth Maier (1920). After her are Rosa Mayreder (1858), Ferdinand von Saar (1833), Eva Ibbotson (1925), André Heller (1947), Robert Menasse (1954), and Walter Abish (1931).

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