WRITER

Elin Wägner

1882 - 1949

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Elin Matilda Elisabet Wägner (16 May 1882 – 7 January 1949) was a Swedish writer, journalist, feminist, teacher, ecologist and pacifist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elin Wägner has received more than 38,248 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Elin Wägner is the 4,564th most popular writer (down from 4,042nd in 2019), the 683rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 568th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 55.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elin Wägner ranks 4,564 out of 7,302. Before her are Jayakanthan, Birgitta Trotzig, Amiri Baraka, Francis de Miomandre, Hadiya Davletshina, and Mykhaylo Semenko. After her are Ayşe Kulin, Iakob Gogebashvili, Neal Stephenson, Jack Canfield, Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov, and Bolesław Leśmian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Elin Wägner ranks 189. Before her are Alfred Keller, Aleksander Skrzyński, Benjamin Jones, Ivan Olbracht, Nevile Henderson, and Bidhan Chandra Roy. After her are Alexander Rueb, Rik Wouters, Willem Elsschot, Hernando Siles Reyes, Seán T. O'Kelly, and Elly Ney. Among people deceased in 1949, Elin Wägner ranks 132. Before her are Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, Nikolay Gamaleya, Claes Johanson, Eddie Owen, Valerio Bacigalupo, and Erik Adolf von Willebrand. After her are Alexander Serafimovich, Harry Davenport, Eusebio Castigliano, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, and Guglielmo Gabetto.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Elin Wägner ranks 683 out of 1,879. Before her are Runer Jonsson (1916), Birgitta Trotzig (1929), Glenn Strömberg (1960), Haakon Sörvik (1886), Christian Lundeberg (1842), and Carl Holmberg (1884). After her are Åke Johansson (1928), Anders Rydberg (1903), Conny Andersson (1939), Ingvar Rydell (1922), Gunder Bengtsson (1946), and Nils Rosén (1902).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Elin Wägner ranks 60. Before her are Dan Andersson (1888), Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901), Sara Lidman (1923), Jan Myrdal (1927), Runer Jonsson (1916), and Birgitta Trotzig (1929). After her are Fredrik Backman (1981), Katarina Frostenson (1953), Barbro Lindgren (1937), Jan Arnald (1963), Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659), and Anna Maria Lenngren (1754).

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