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Vasil Bykaŭ

1924 - 2003

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Vasil Uladzimiravič Bykaŭ (also spelled Vasil Bykov, Belarusian: Васі́ль Уладзі́міравіч Бы́каў, Russian: Василь Влади́мирович Быков; 19 June 1924 – 22 June 2003) was a Belarusian dissident and opposition politician, junior lieutenant, and author of novels and novellas about World War II. A significant figure in Soviet and Belarusian literature and civic thought, his work earned him endorsements for the Nobel Prize nomination from, among others, Nobel Prize laureates Joseph Brodsky and Czesław Miłosz. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasil Bykaŭ is the 2,489th most popular writer (down from 1,522nd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 49th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Belarusian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 2,489 out of 7,302Before him are Eben Alexander, Delmira Agustini, Stephen Baxter, Jacob Cats, Luigi Alamanni, and Ernst von Salomon. After him are Kate Chopin, Gardner Fox, Jules Guesde, Philippe Quinault, Miloš Crnjanski, and John Grinder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 160Before him are Michel Constantin, William Auld, Girija Prasad Koirala, Carlo Bergonzi, Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, and Donatas Banionis. After him are István Nyers, Walter Gotell, Bayezid Osman, Fud Leclerc, Mohammed Rafi, and Margit Sandemo. Among people deceased in 2003, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 109Before him are Donald O'Connor, Maurice Pialat, Kalpana Chawla, Michel Constantin, Qusay Hussein, and Daishiro Yoshimura. After him are Fred Rogers, Mohammed Dib, Bernard Williams, Foday Sankoh, Karel Kosík, and Martha Chase.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 76 out of 368Before him are Oscar Zariski (1899), Władysław Strzemiński (1893), Carl Anton von Meyer (1795), January Suchodolski (1797), Alexander Rybak (1986), and Sergei Aleinikov (1961). After him are Jan Czerski (1845), Simon Dubnow (1860), Czesław Niemen (1939), Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876), Lev Polugaevsky (1934), and Napoleon Orda (1807).

Among WRITERS In Belarus

Among writers born in Belarus, Vasil Bykaŭ ranks 10Before him are Mendele Mocher Sforim (1835), Eliza Orzeszkowa (1841), S. Ansky (1863), Oscar Milosz (1877), Aleksander Chodźko (1804), and Bella Rosenfeld (1889). After him are Uladzimir Karatkievich (1930), Ales Adamovich (1927), Nahum Goldmann (1895), Maksim Bahdanovič (1891), Zivia Lubetkin (1914), and Itzhak Katzenelson (1886).