WRITER

Gyrðir Elíasson

1961 - Today

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Gyrðir Elíasson (born 4 April 1961) is an author and translator in Iceland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gyrðir Elíasson has received more than 22,306 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Gyrðir Elíasson is the 6,236th most popular writer (down from 5,717th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Iceland (down from 88th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Icelander Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 22k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Næturluktin
2001
Sandárbókin
2007
Bak við maríuglerið
1985
Milli trjánna
2009
Stone tree
Fiction, Social life and customs, Translations into English
2008
Trésmíði í eilífðinni og fleiri sögur
1998

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gyrðir Elíasson ranks 6,236 out of 7,302. Before him are Satya Vrat Shastri, Dragojla Jarnević, Tristan Taormino, Michael Arlen, Robert Hughes, and Linda Maria Baros. After him are Thomas Hughes, Ronald Firbank, Dan Abnett, William Empson, Barbara Pym, and Stig Claesson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Gyrðir Elíasson ranks 492. Before him are Karin Enke, Anthony McCarten, Einars Repše, Bodil Jørgensen, Andrea Pollack, and Andy Taylor. After him are Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Brad Gilbert, Christopher Ferguson, Yuji Sugano, Tetyana Dorovskikh, and Scott Cohen.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Gyrðir Elíasson ranks 94 out of 190. Before him are Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (1975), Emil Jónsson (1902), Eiríkur Hauksson (1959), Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir (1940), Jón Gnarr (1967), and Magnús Guðmundsson (1879). After him are Jón Páll Sigmarsson (1960), Atli Eðvaldsson (1957), Steingrímur J. Sigfússon (1955), Gylfi Sigurðsson (1989), Sjón (1962), and Kolbeinn Sigþórsson (1990).

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Among WRITERS In Iceland

Among writers born in Iceland, Gyrðir Elíasson ranks 24. Before him are Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (1958), Einar Már Guðmundsson (1954), Hallgrímur Helgason (1959), Þórbergur Þórðarson (1888), Snorri Hjartarson (1906), and Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir (1940). After him are Sjón (1962), and Jónína Leósdóttir (1954).

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