1900 - 1976
Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eyvind Johnson has received more than 133,853 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Eyvind Johnson is the 569th most popular writer (down from 559th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 77th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swedish Writer.
Eyvind Johnson is most famous for his novel, The Emigrants, which was published in 1949. The book is about a group of Swedish immigrants who leave their homeland to start a new life in America.
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Among writers, Eyvind Johnson ranks 569 out of 5,755. Before him are Alain Robbe-Grillet, Theocritus, Sándor Petőfi, Mo Yan, Lion Feuchtwanger, and Dietrich Eckart. After him are Isaac Babel, Dino Buzzati, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Francisco de Quevedo, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Theodore Dreiser.
1922 - 2008
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 563
315 BC - 260 BC
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 564
1823 - 1849
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 565
1955 - Present
HPI: 65.40
Rank: 566
1884 - 1958
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 567
1868 - 1923
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 568
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 569
1894 - 1940
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 570
1906 - 1972
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 571
1881 - 1958
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 572
1584 - 1645
HPI: 65.27
Rank: 573
1901 - 1968
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 574
1871 - 1945
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 575
Among people born in 1900, Eyvind Johnson ranks 26. Before him are Sándor Márai, Urho Kekkonen, Hans Fritzsche, Giorgos Seferis, Hans Adolf Krebs, and Kurt Weill. After him are Jan Oort, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Kuhn, Edith Frank, Mahavatar Babaji, and Chiune Sugihara. Among people deceased in 1976, Eyvind Johnson ranks 25. Before him are Alexander Calder, Ulrike Meinhof, Joachim Peiper, Benjamin Graham, Jacques Monod, and Anneliese Michel. After him are Zhu De, Rudolf Bultmann, Raymond Queneau, Gustav Heinemann, Josef Albers, and Leopold Ružička.
1900 - 1989
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 20
1900 - 1986
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 21
1900 - 1953
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 22
1900 - 1971
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 23
1900 - 1981
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 24
1900 - 1950
HPI: 65.60
Rank: 25
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 26
1900 - 1992
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 27
1900 - 1938
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 28
1900 - 1967
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 29
1900 - 1945
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 30
1900 - Present
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 31
1900 - 1986
HPI: 64.22
Rank: 32
1898 - 1976
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 19
1934 - 1976
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 21
1894 - 1976
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 22
1910 - 1976
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 23
1952 - 1976
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 24
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 25
1886 - 1976
HPI: 64.99
Rank: 26
1884 - 1976
HPI: 64.44
Rank: 27
1903 - 1976
HPI: 64.20
Rank: 28
1899 - 1976
HPI: 63.64
Rank: 29
1888 - 1976
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 30
1887 - 1976
HPI: 63.52
Rank: 31
Among people born in Sweden, Eyvind Johnson ranks 78 out of 1,612. Before him are Sven Hedin (1865), Arne Tiselius (1902), Olof Skötkonung (980), Louise of Sweden (1851), Marie Taglioni (1804), and Haakon VI of Norway (1340). After him are Eric the Victorious (945), Anders Zorn (1860), Lars Vilks (1946), Alva Myrdal (1902), Bibi Andersson (1935), and Charles VIII of Sweden (1409).
1865 - 1952
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 72
1902 - 1971
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 73
980 - 1022
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 74
1851 - 1926
HPI: 66.07
Rank: 75
1804 - 1884
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 76
1340 - 1380
HPI: 65.47
Rank: 77
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 78
945 - 995
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 79
1860 - 1920
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 80
1946 - 2021
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 81
1902 - 1986
HPI: 64.95
Rank: 82
1935 - 2019
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 83
1409 - 1470
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 84
Among writers born in Sweden, Eyvind Johnson ranks 8. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf (1858), August Strindberg (1849), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), and Henning Mankell (1948). After him are Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Ellen Key (1849), Per Olov Enquist (1934), and Maj Sjöwall (1935).
1858 - 1940
HPI: 77.70
Rank: 2
1849 - 1912
HPI: 75.12
Rank: 3
1931 - 2015
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 4
1864 - 1931
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 5
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 6
1948 - 2015
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 7
1900 - 1976
HPI: 65.35
Rank: 8
1904 - 1978
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 9
1954 - 2004
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 10
1859 - 1940
HPI: 64.39
Rank: 11
1849 - 1926
HPI: 60.71
Rank: 12
1934 - 2020
HPI: 59.15
Rank: 13
1935 - 2020
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 14