WRITER

Hjalmar Söderberg

1869 - 1941

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Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg (2 July 1869 – 14 October 1941) was a Swedish novelist, short story writer, playwright and journalist. His works often deal with melancholy and lovelorn characters, and offer a rich portrayal of contemporary Stockholm through the eyes of the flaneur. Söderberg is regarded as one of the greatest writers in Swedish literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hjalmar Söderberg has received more than 101,800 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Hjalmar Söderberg is the 1,511th most popular writer (up from 1,813th in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 270th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 58.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

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Notable Works

Förvillelser
1963
Short stories
Fiction, Social life and customs, Translations into English
1962
Doktor Glas
Physicians, Fiction
1905
Martin Bircks ungdom
City and town life, Fiction, Modern fiction
1904
Den allvarsamma leken
1959
Hjalmar Söderberg
1969

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Hjalmar Söderberg ranks 1,511 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacopo Sannazaro, Olaus Petri, Jonas Mekas, George of Pisidia, Louise Labé, and Vladimir Korolenko. After him are Babrius, Ion Luca Caragiale, Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, J. G. Ballard, Semonides of Amorgos, and Ahmed Shawqi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Hjalmar Söderberg ranks 48. Before him are Richard Abegg, Élie Cartan, Else Lasker-Schüler, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia, and Giulio Douhet. After him are Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, Liane de Pougy, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Stanisław Wojciechowski, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, and Hans Pfitzner. Among people deceased in 1941, Hjalmar Söderberg ranks 60. Before him are Benjamin Lee Whorf, Karin Boye, Henri Cornet, Guido Adler, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, and Natalie of Serbia. After him are Charles Huntziger, Émile Picard, Hans Driesch, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Hans Berger, and Lou Gehrig.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Hjalmar Söderberg ranks 238 out of 1,879. Before him are Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken (1616), Adam Afzelius (1750), Reino Börjesson (1929), Catherine Stenbock (1535), Olaus Petri (1493), and Sven Nykvist (1922). After him are Mats Wilander (1964), Carl Gustaf Mosander (1797), John Ericsson (1803), Camilla Läckberg (1974), Gustav Horn, Count of Pori (1592), and Lennart Bernadotte (1909).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Hjalmar Söderberg ranks 17. Before him are Ellen Key (1849), Per Olov Enquist (1934), Maj Sjöwall (1935), Karin Boye (1900), Elsa Beskow (1874), and Olaus Petri (1493). After him are Camilla Läckberg (1974), Jan Guillou (1944), Håkan Nesser (1950), Per Wahlöö (1926), Stig Dagerman (1923), and Sven Nordqvist (1946).

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