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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 64,438 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Gunnar Ekelöf is the 3,032nd most popular writer (down from 2,856th in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 394th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 51.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 3,032 out of 5,755. Before him are Robert M. Pirsig, Boris Pilnyak, Robert de Nola, Vladimir Sorokin, Marcel Prévost, and William Smith. After him are Takeo Arishima, Boris Polevoy, Juliette Adam, Samad Behrangi, Marie-Joseph Chénier, and Mercedes de Acosta.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 162. Before him are Daigoro Kondo, Marcel Bezençon, Alfred Delp, Volmari Iso-Hollo, John King Fairbank, and Sukhdev Thapar. After him are Frederick Copleston, Germaine Tillion, Benny Carter, Ethel Smith, Raymond Braine, and Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal. Among people deceased in 1968, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 103. Before him are Hitoshi Imamura, Camille Huysmans, Sigfried Giedion, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Lina Stern, and Jan Johansson. After him are Mercedes de Acosta, Khuang Aphaiwong, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Joseph Keilberth, Ivan Pyryev, and Ramon Novarro.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 413 out of 1,612. Before him are Kennet Andersson (1967), Richard Bergh (1858), Lars Norén (1944), Dead (1969), Hillevi Rombin (1933), and Jan Johansson (1931). After him are Marika Green (1943), Bengt Strömgren (1908), Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Amalia Lindegren (1814), and Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 36. Before him are Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Sven Lindqvist (1932), Artur Lundkvist (1906), and Lars Norén (1944). After him are Gunilla Bergström (1942), Leif G. W. Persson (1945), Ulf Stark (1944), Dagmar Lange (1914), Viktor Rydberg (1828), and Liza Marklund (1962).

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