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Tomas Venclova

1937 - Today

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Tomas Venclova (born 11 September 1937) is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980, he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tomas Venclova is the 3,179th most popular writer (down from 2,885th in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 81st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Lithuanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tomas Venclova ranks 3,179 out of 7,302. Before him are Andre Norton, Robert Penn Warren, Irena Veisaitė, Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma, William Langland, and Léon Daudet. After him are Alfred Andersch, Robert Anderson, Marianne Fredriksson, Vicente Huidobro, Hitoshi Igarashi, and Giovanni della Casa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Tomas Venclova ranks 227. Before him are George Zweig, Barbara Steele, Loretta Swit, Robert Ressler, Joe Viterelli, and Jeremiah P. Ostriker. After him are Claude Allègre, Jackie Collins, George Kerr, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Valentin Rasputin, and Ivo Daneu.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Tomas Venclova ranks 89 out of 328. Before him are Klara Zamenhof (1863), Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938), Clara Rockmore (1911), Maciej Sulkiewicz (1865), Kazimieras Būga (1879), and Irena Veisaitė (1928). After him are Šarūnas Jasikevičius (1976), Yitzhak Arad (1926), Bernard Berenson (1865), Alma Adamkienė (1927), Al Jolson (1886), and Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (1871).

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Among WRITERS In Lithuania

Among writers born in Lithuania, Tomas Venclova ranks 9. Before him are Simon Dach (1605), Jonas Mekas (1922), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892), Vydūnas (1868), and Irena Veisaitė (1928). After him are Francišak Bahuševič (1840), Justinas Marcinkevičius (1930), Žemaitė (1845), Jurgis Baltrušaitis (1873), Osip Senkovsky (1800), and Źmitrok Biadula (1886).

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