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Vasily Grossman

1905 - 1964

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Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (Russian: Васи́лий Семёнович Гро́ссман; 12 December (29 November, Julian calendar) 1905 – 14 September 1964) was a Soviet writer and journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire, Grossman trained as a chemical engineer at Moscow State University, earning the nickname Vasya-khimik ("Vasya the Chemist") because of his diligence as a student. Upon graduation, he took a job in Stalino (now Donetsk) in the Donets Basin. In the 1930s he changed careers and began writing full-time, publishing a number of short stories and several novels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Grossman is the 532nd most popular writer (down from 458th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 59th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Vasily Grossman is most famous for his book Life and Fate, which was not published in Russia until the late 1980s.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Vasily Grossman ranks 532 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacinto Benavente, Ludvig Holberg, Georg Trakl, Tennessee Williams, Jules Michelet, and J. M. Barrie. After him are Richard Bach, Pierre de Ronsard, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Martial, Vasubandhu, and Luo Guanzhong.

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Among people born in 1905, Vasily Grossman ranks 21. Before him are Faustina Kowalska, Mikhail Sholokhov, Emilio Segrè, Astrid of Sweden, Felix Bloch, and Marcel Lefebvre. After him are Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Ulf von Euler, Artem Mikoyan, Guillermo Stábile, and Władysław Gomułka. Among people deceased in 1964, Vasily Grossman ranks 15. Before him are James Franck, Alma Mahler, Rachel Carson, Norbert Wiener, Gerhard Domagk, and Ian Fleming. After him are Sigfrid Edström, Gerrit Rietveld, Palmiro Togliatti, Gerald Gardner, Karl Polanyi, and Alvin York.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Vasily Grossman ranks 68 out of 1,365. Before him are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Nikolai Berdyaev (1874), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), Lazar Kaganovich (1893), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891). After him are Vladimir Tatlin (1885), Yuri Dolgorukiy (1095), Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Anatoliy Solovianenko (1932), Rodion Malinovsky (1898), and Sonia Delaunay (1885).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Vasily Grossman ranks 15. Before him are Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Isaac Babel (1894), Ivan Franko (1856), and Ilya Ehrenburg (1891). After him are Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), and Clarice Lispector (1920).

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