WRITER

Håkan Nesser

1950 - Today

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Håkan Nesser (born 21 February 1950) is a Swedish author and teacher who mainly writes crime fiction. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the prestigious Glass Key award in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Håkan Nesser has received more than 208,651 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Håkan Nesser is the 1,730th most popular writer (down from 1,491st in 2019), the 264th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 225th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Håkan Nesser ranks 1,730 out of 7,302. Before him are Archestratus, E. E. Cummings, Hans F. K. Günther, Ken Wilber, Sabino Arana, and Alexander Grin. After him are Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Arthur Machen, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Augusto Roa Bastos, Robert de Boron, and Stanisław Wyspiański.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Håkan Nesser ranks 101. Before him are Jorge Carlos Fonseca, Alexander Lebed, Mory Kanté, Anghel Iordănescu, Ubaldo Fillol, and William Sadler. After him are Jean-Marc Ayrault, Victoria Principal, John Landis, James Rothman, Joe Perry, and Tom Petty.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Håkan Nesser ranks 264 out of 1,879. Before him are Göran Persson (1949), Stig Anderson (1931), Ove Kindvall (1943), Blot-Sweyn (1001), Stefan Edberg (1966), and Jan-Ove Waldner (1965). After him are Björn Waldegård (1943), Johann Patkul (1660), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), Gideon Sundback (1880), Torsten Wiesel (1924), and Torbern Bergman (1735).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Håkan Nesser ranks 20. Before him are Karin Boye (1900), Elsa Beskow (1874), Olaus Petri (1493), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Camilla Läckberg (1974), and Jan Guillou (1944). After him are Per Wahlöö (1926), Stig Dagerman (1923), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Kerstin Ekman (1933), Ulf Stark (1944), and Jonas Jonasson (1961).

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