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Yuri Rytkheu

1930 - 2008

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Yuri Sergeyevich Rytkheu (Russian: Ю́рий Серге́евич Рытхэ́у, IPA: [ˈjʉrʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ rɨtˈxɛʊ]; Chukot: Ю́рий Серге́евич Рытгэ́в; 8 March 1930 – 14 May 2008) was a Chukchi writer, who wrote in both his native Chukchi and in Russian. He is considered to be the father of Chukchi literature. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Rytkheu is the 3,575th most popular writer (up from 3,945th in 2019), the 1,259th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,440th in 2019) and the 150th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yuri Rytkheu ranks 3,575 out of 7,302. Before him are Gyula Krúdy, Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso, Chittaranjan Das, Russell Banks, Marilyn French, and Aisha Taymur. After him are Thomas Corneille, Musine Kokalari, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dorothea Viehmann, E. W. Hornung, and Antoine de la Sale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Yuri Rytkheu ranks 298. Before him are Roy E. Disney, Giuliano Montaldo, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Stephen Fumio Hamao, Philip Bosco, and Guy Béart. After him are Pavel Schmidt, Nino Cerruti, Wojciech Zabłocki, Gary Snyder, Georges Descrières, and Lois Smith. Among people deceased in 2008, Yuri Rytkheu ranks 177. Before him are Heinz Kwiatkowski, Baba Amte, František Čapek, Dan Shomron, Bill Melendez, and Choi Jin-sil. After him are Anton Allemann, Albert Cossery, Arthur Chung, Peter Poreku Dery, Boris Yefimov, and David Foster Wallace.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Rytkheu ranks 1,259 out of 3,761. Before him are Anatoly Marchenko (1938), Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Victor Pelevin (1962), Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Semyon Chelyuskin (1700), and Boris Volynov (1934). After him are Kaj Franck (1911), Vladimir Petlyakov (1891), Dmitry Karbyshev (1880), Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev (1908), Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), and Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Yuri Rytkheu ranks 150. Before him are Guzal Sitdikova (1952), Zacharias Werner (1768), Kir Bulychev (1934), Boris Polevoy (1908), Veijo Meri (1928), and Victor Pelevin (1962). After him are Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), Edvard Radzinsky (1936), Gaito Gazdanov (1903), Olga Bergholz (1910), Yuli Daniel (1925), and Nikolay Ogarev (1813).

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