WRITER

Gunnar Ekelöf

1907 - 1968

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Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf (15 September 1907 – 16 March 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gunnar Ekelöf has received more than 67,986 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Ekelöf is the 3,133rd most popular writer (down from 3,021st in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 412th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Swedish Writer.

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Notable Works

En självbiografi
1971
Om hösten
1951
Strountes
1955
Urval
1968
Poems
Translations into English
1966
Dikter
1949
Urval
1968
Poems
Translations into English, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Ekelöf, Gunnar, 1907-1968 -- Translations into English
xiv, 168 p. ; 22 cm
1966
Blandade kort
1967
Strountes
1955
En självbiografi
1971
Vägvisare till underjorden
1967

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 3,133 out of 7,302. Before him are Antoine de Rivarol, Salimbene di Adam, Marianne Williamson, Erri De Luca, Charles de Saint-Évremond, and Eduard Vilde. After him are Robert Harris, Símun av Skarði, Mario Soldati, Étienne Jodelle, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, and Fadwa Tuqan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 166. Before him are Mariam Aslamazian, Blagoje Marjanović, John Marley, Rosalind Russell, Alfred Delp, and Raymond Braine. After him are Annabella, Jean Carzou, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Géza von Radványi, Sergei Shtemenko, and Béla Barényi. Among people deceased in 1968, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 107. Before him are Sigfried Giedion, Alfredo Foglino, Anthony Asquith, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Khuang Aphaiwong, and Armando Castellazzi. After him are Mae Marsh, Jan Johansson, Ibrahim Moustafa, Lina Stern, Robert Z. Leonard, and Rose Wilder Lane.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 436 out of 1,879. Before him are Olof Swartz (1760), Carl Johan Thyselius (1811), Lars Gustafsson (1936), Eugène Jansson (1862), Emma Wiklund (1968), and Johan David Åkerblad (1763). After him are Odd Nerdrum (1944), Jan Johansson (1931), Gösta Pettersson (1940), Estrid of the Obotrites (979), Greta Thunberg (2003), and Victoria Silvstedt (1974).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 37. Before him are Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Esaias Tegnér (1782), Lars Norén (1944), and Åsa Larsson (1966). After him are Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Leif G. W. Persson (1945), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Viktor Rydberg (1828), and Liza Marklund (1962).

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