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Bo Carpelan

1926 - 2011

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Baron Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan (25 October 1926 – 11 February 2011) was a Finland-Swedish poet and author. He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his PhD in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in Swedish, composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories.In 1997, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bo Carpelan has received more than 32,237 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Bo Carpelan is the 2,805th most popular writer (up from 2,839th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Finland (up from 114th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Finnish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bo Carpelan ranks 2,805 out of 5,755Before him are Hubert Selby Jr., Tarafa, Dorothea von Schlegel, Louis of Granada, Nonius Marcellus, and Alberic of Trois-Fontaines. After him are Marco Foscarini, Lucius Afranius, H.D., Jean Ray, Miguel Torga, and Józef Czapski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Bo Carpelan ranks 187Before him are Ernst Ocwirk, Ingrid Haebler, Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, Big Mama Thornton, Estanislao Esteban Karlic, and Vicente Aranda. After him are Mieczysław Rakowski, Sonja Ziemann, Ivica Horvat, Shigeru Kayano, Vitaly Vorotnikov, and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Among people deceased in 2011, Bo Carpelan ranks 143Before him are Milivoj Ašner, Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Sena Jurinac, Susannah York, Abdul Fatah Younis, and Osamu Dezaki. After him are Seve Ballesteros, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Helen Frankenthaler, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Gerry Rafferty, and Robert Brout.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Bo Carpelan ranks 111 out of 642Before him are Karl-August Fagerholm (1901), Juha Mieto (1949), Rauno Aaltonen (1938), Eemil Nestor Setälä (1864), Lauri Ingman (1868), and Kaija Saariaho (1952). After him are Eero Mäntyranta (1937), Mika Kaurismäki (1955), Lauri Lehtinen (1908), Anders Chydenius (1729), Aimo Lahti (1896), and Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907).

Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Bo Carpelan ranks 16Before him are Eino Leino (1878), Minna Canth (1844), Juhani Aho (1861), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Pentti Linkola (1932), and Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943). After him are Frans Michael Franzén (1772), Paavo Haavikko (1931), Lydia Chukovskaya (1907), Sofi Oksanen (1977), Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), and Johannes Linnankoski (1869).