WRITER

Benny Andersen

1929 - 2018

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Benny Andersen (7 November 1929 – 16 August 2018) was a Danish poet, author, songwriter, composer and pianist. He is often remembered for his collaboration with the singer Povl Dissing; together they released an album with Andersen's poems from the collection Svantes viser. This album and Andersen's book "Svantes viser" (Svante's Songs) from 1972 were included by the Danish Ministry of Culture in the Danish Culture Canon in 2006, in the category "Popular music". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benny Andersen has received more than 61,536 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Benny Andersen is the 5,943rd most popular writer (down from 5,174th in 2019), the 592nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 503rd in 2019) and the 48th most popular Danish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Benny Andersen ranks 5,943 out of 7,302Before him are Zoé Valdés, Wilma Mankiller, Philippe Delerm, Christian Kracht, Göran Sonnevi, and Sita Ram Goel. After him are Claude Esteban, J. Michael Straczynski, Susan Cooper, Arvo Valton, Álvaro Pombo, and Nísia Floresta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Benny Andersen ranks 472Before him are Ralph McQuarrie, Willy Kernen, Ken Henry, Clyde Lovellette, Toimi Alatalo, and Gabriel Ochoa Uribe. After him are Jean-Denis Bredin, Lyubov Kozyreva, Kiichirō Furukawa, Boris Nikolov, LaVern Baker, and Gheorghe Fiat. Among people deceased in 2018, Benny Andersen ranks 442Before him are Douglas Rain, Yoseph Imry, Viktor Matviyenko, Hugh Wilson, Evy Berggren, and Maurane. After him are Michel Bonnevie, Randy Weston, Mary Midgley, Juris Silovs, Jeanne Ashworth, and Daniel Quinn.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Benny Andersen ranks 593 out of 1,032Before him are Michael Pedersen Friis (1857), Kevin Magnussen (1992), Søren Malling (1964), Emmelie de Forest (1993), Aage Larsen (1923), Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (1995), and Andreas Mogensen (1976). After him are Gunnar Asmussen (1944), Roland Møller (1972), Kenneth Brylle (1959), John Danielsen (1939), and Ole Qvist (1950).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Benny Andersen ranks 48Before him are Henrik Nordbrandt (1945), Peer Hultberg (1935), Villy Sørensen (1929), Hans Christian Branner (1903), Carsten Jensen (1952), and Dorrit Willumsen (1940). After him are Pia Tafdrup (1952), Sherin Khankan (1974), Sandi Toksvig (1958), and Yahya Hassan (1995).