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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 35,587 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Elin Wägner is the 4,055th most popular writer (down from 3,837th in 2019), the 569th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 535th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 48.44

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elin Wägner ranks 4,055 out of 5,755Before her are Bolesław Leśmian, Janko Kráľ, Mary McCarthy, Alexander Galich, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, and Taranatha. After her are Quentin Crisp, Adam Naruszewicz, Andrei Mureșanu, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak, Thomas Nashe, and Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Elin Wägner ranks 176Before her are Emmanouil Tsouderos, Simon Vratsian, Pierre Mac Orlan, Rockwell Kent, Osip Piatnitsky, and Alfred Keller. After her are Benjamin Jones, Wyndham Halswelle, Robert Kerr, Amelita Galli-Curci, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, and Henry J. Kaiser. Among people deceased in 1949, Elin Wägner ranks 120Before her are Carlo Galetti, Uemura Shōen, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, John Neville Keynes, Vasily Lebedev-Kumach, and Émile Eddé. After her are Alexander Serafimovich, Claes Johanson, Themistoklis Sofoulis, Harry Davenport, Stoyan Danev, and Kalle Anttila.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Elin Wägner ranks 569 out of 1,612Before her are Åse Kleveland (1949), Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718), Peter Tägtgren (1970), Inger Stevens (1934), Bo Larsson (1944), and Gunnar Andersson (1928). After her are Gunnar Eriksson (1921), Lisa Fonssagrives (1911), Carl Bonde (1872), Björn Granath (1946), Viveca Sten (1959), and Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Elin Wägner ranks 55Before her are Torgny Lindgren (1938), Runer Jonsson (1916), Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Barbro Lindgren (1937), Dan Andersson (1888), and Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718). After her are Viveca Sten (1959), Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901), Jan Myrdal (1927), Mats Wahl (1945), Hjalmar Bergman (1883), and Jan Arnald (1963).