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Teffi

1872 - 1952

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Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (Russian: Наде́жда Алекса́ндровна Тэ́ффи; 21 May [O.S. 9 May] 1872 – 6 October 1952) was a Russian humorist writer. Together with Arkady Averchenko she was one of the prominent authors of the magazine Novyi Satirikon. Her style is distinguished by two 'faces' of writing- the serious and the satirical, which she alternated between and often fused together to create a unique output of personal and political commentaries. Teffi's gift for humour was considered anomalous for a woman of her time, particularly due to well-known thinkers such as Henri Bergson and Arthur Schopenhauer who had declared that women were not capable of a sense of humour. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Teffi is the 4,544th most popular writer (down from 3,801st in 2019), the 1,668th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,385th in 2019) and the 209th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Teffi ranks 4,544 out of 7,302. Before her are R. K. Narayan, Vera Panova, Runer Jonsson, Ameen Rihani, Robert Edmond Grant, and Paul Bekker. After her are Firaq Gorakhpuri, Francis de Miomandre, Jane Bowles, Ernst Stadler, Jacques Roumain, and Klaus Groth.

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Among people born in 1872, Teffi ranks 146. Before her are John McCrae, Kote Marjanishvili, Georg Schnéevoigt, Siegmund von Hausegger, Walther Reinhardt, and Wilfred Baddeley. After her are Barbu Știrbey, Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed, Zane Grey, Nikola Mushanov, Jan Szczepanik, and Feliciano Viera. Among people deceased in 1952, Teffi ranks 135. Before her are Ernst Streeruwitz, Sunao Tawara, Juan Bautista Pérez, Elmo Lincoln, Harold Innis, and Géza Kiss. After her are Stafford Cripps, Ivan Olbracht, Itzik Feffer, Richard Johansson, Guido Castelnuovo, and Sándor Pósta.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Teffi ranks 1,668 out of 3,761. Before her are Klara Rumyanova (1929), Tatyana Tolstaya (1951), Albert Razin (1940), Vera Panova (1905), Vasily Stasov (1769), and Mikhail Voronin (1945). After her are Yuri Ozerov (1921), Issay Dobrowen (1891), Sergei Sukhoruchenkov (1956), Ivan Shmelyov (1873), Karen Shakhnazarov (1952), and Sophia Parnok (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Teffi ranks 209. Before her are Alexander Odoevsky (1802), Aleksey Koltsov (1809), Zainab Biisheva (1908), Agnes Miegel (1879), Tatyana Tolstaya (1951), and Vera Panova (1905). After her are Ivan Shmelyov (1873), Sophia Parnok (1885), Aleksei Arbuzov (1908), Yury Trifonov (1925), Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), and Nikolay Zabolotsky (1903).

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