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Robert Conquest

British historian and poet · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1917 to 2015 · aged 98

George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Robert Conquest is read about 156 times a day, in 36 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 11 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 113 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2015Died3 August 20152012Dan David PrizeAward2005Presidential Medal of FreedomAward2000Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th classAward1997Michael Braude Award for Light VerseAward1994Shevchenko National PrizeAward1993Jefferson LectureAward1936In historyStalin's Great Purge beginsAug 19361917Born15 July 1917

People around Robert

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František Filip Directed Egyptologové (1974)

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Conquest (left) receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Aretha Franklin (middle) and Alan Greenspan (right) at the White House, November 2005

Conquest (left) receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Aretha Franklin (middle) and Alan Greenspan (right) at the White House, November 2005

Awards

Dan David Prize2012

Presidential Medal of Freedom2005

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class2000

Michael Braude Award for Light Verse1997

Shevchenko National Prize1994

Jefferson Lecture1993

Antonovych prize

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George

Fellow of the British Academy

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

About this person

Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.

Country

United Kingdom

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Writers

Type

Writer / Author

Status

Deceased

Dates

Lived 1917 to 2015 · aged 98

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What they share with Robert

Kingsley AmisAlso in Egyptologové (1974)Wendy CopeBoth received Michael Braude Award for Light Verse Henry S. TaylorBoth received Michael Braude Award for Light Verse

Writers from the United Kingdom 2

John Byrne56.6 of 100

Richard Adams54.7 of 100