WRITER

Elsa Beskow

1874 - 1953

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Elsa Beskow (née Maartman; 11 February 1874 – 30 June 1953) was a famous Swedish author and illustrator of children's books. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elsa Beskow has received more than 150,661 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Elsa Beskow is the 1,501st most popular writer (up from 1,698th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 263rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Children of the Forest
Forest life, Children's stories, Children
Four tiny elf children living in a Scandinavian forest have adventures throughout the year working and playing with the other inhabitants: fairies, a troll, birds, bats, 4 leggeds, and more. They wear hats of the red spotted amanita muscaria as a camoflage should they need to hide. So we rarely see them, but children, do you think they really exist?
1969
Peter in Blueberry Land
1982
The Sun Egg
1980
ABC-resan
Alphabet, Alphabet rhymes
1945
Hattstugan
Stories in rhyme, Nursery rhymes
1961
Pelles nya kläder
Barter, Fiction, Juvenile fiction
A Swedish boy has to work at many different things in exchange for others to card, spin, dye, weave, and sew his wool, before he can earn a new suit made from the wool of his own lamb.
1929

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Elsa Beskow ranks 1,501 out of 7,302. Before her are Robert Jordan, Salvian, B. K. S. Iyengar, Nora Roberts, Georges Duhamel, and Ibn al-Khatib. After her are Guillaume de Lorris, Aksel Sandemose, Henry de Montherlant, Jacopo Sannazaro, Olaus Petri, and Jonas Mekas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Elsa Beskow ranks 51. Before her are Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Otto Mueller, Prince Jean, Duke of Guise, D. F. Malan, and Henri Farman. After her are Albin Lermusiaux, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Thomas J. Watson, André-Louis Debierne, and Franz Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1953, Elsa Beskow ranks 43. Before her are Ludwig Prandtl, Hugo Schmeisser, Mary Anderson, Jean Epstein, Johan Laidoner, and Alice Prin. After her are Hank Williams, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, Noe Zhordania, Nobutake Kondō, Bill Tilden, and Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Elsa Beskow ranks 231 out of 1,879. Before her are Per Gessle (1959), Hans Rosling (1948), Lena Olin (1955), Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland (1973), Princess Margaretha of Sweden (1899), and Lars Vilks (1946). After her are Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616), Adam Afzelius (1750), Reino Börjesson (1929), Catherine Stenbock (1535), Olaus Petri (1493), and Sven Nykvist (1922).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Elsa Beskow ranks 15. Before her are Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Ellen Key (1849), Per Olov Enquist (1934), Maj Sjöwall (1935), and Karin Boye (1900). After her are Olaus Petri (1493), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Camilla Läckberg (1974), Jan Guillou (1944), Håkan Nesser (1950), and Per Wahlöö (1926).

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