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Yury Olesha

1899 - 1960

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Yury Karlovich Olesha (Russian: Ю́рий Ка́рлович Оле́ша, 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1899 – 10 May 1960) was a Russian and Soviet novelist. He is considered one of the greatest Russian novelists of the 20th century, one of the few to have succeeded in writing works of lasting artistic value despite the stifling censorship of the era. His works are delicate balancing acts that superficially send pro-Communist messages but reveal far greater subtlety and richness upon a deeper reading. Sometimes, he is grouped with his friends Ilf and Petrov, Isaac Babel, and Sigismund Krzhizhanovsky into the Odessa School of Writers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yury Olesha is the 3,381st most popular writer (down from 3,025th in 2019), the 504th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 446th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yury Olesha ranks 3,381 out of 7,302. Before him are Françoise d'Eaubonne, Aino Kallas, Henry Kuttner, Valerius Antias, Kan Kikuchi, and Ewald Christian von Kleist. After him are Alexander Sumarokov, Yury Vlasov, Jens Baggesen, Caspar Barlaeus, Mario Soldati, and Akazome Emon.

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Among people born in 1899, Yury Olesha ranks 166. Before him are Gale Sondergaard, Leo Borchard, Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Armand Salacrou, Günther Pancke, and Silvestre Revueltas. After him are C. S. Forester, Rudolf Svensson, Bo Lindman, Aleksandr Deyneka, Carlo Rosselli, and Otto E. Neugebauer. Among people deceased in 1960, Yury Olesha ranks 111. Before him are Roy Chapman Andrews, Erich Neumann, Zora Neale Hurston, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Maud Menten, and Eduard Pütsep. After him are Joseph Vendryes, Friedrich Kirchner, Melvin Purvis, Knud Enemark Jensen, Agnes Arber, and Dmitry Gulia.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Yury Olesha ranks 504 out of 1,365. Before him are Faina Melnik (1945), Yuriy Boyko (1958), Ivan Marchuk (1936), Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923), Mikhail Koltsov (1898), and Viktor Chukarin (1921). After him are Malusha (null), Mikhail Fridman (1964), Yury Vlasov (1935), Petro Symonenko (1952), Grigory Yavlinsky (1952), and Klim Churyumov (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Yury Olesha ranks 68. Before him are Olena Pchilka (1849), Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705), Nataliya Kobrynska (1855), Nikolay Nosov (1908), Anatoly Rybakov (1911), and Mikhail Koltsov (1898). After him are Yury Vlasov (1935), Manès Sperber (1905), Oles Honchar (1918), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), Vladimir Megre (1950), and Demyan Bedny (1883).

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