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Jan Arnald

1963 - Today

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Jan Arnald (born 11 January 1963) is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, whose pen name is Arne Dahl. He has become famous with crime fiction, and he is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pen name he has written a series of crime novels about a fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Arnald has received more than 165,251 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Arnald is the 4,264th most popular writer (down from 3,735th in 2019), the 612th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 519th in 2019) and the 61st most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 170k

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  • 47.80

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Arnald ranks 4,264 out of 5,755Before him are John D. MacDonald, Dmitry Gulia, Joachim Heinrich Campe, Rosa Montero, Milovan Glišić, and Rosa Sensat. After him are Alan Bennett, Anita Loos, Abbas Sahhat, William Gaddis, André Schwarz-Bart, and Francis Marrash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Jan Arnald ranks 208Before him are Aslan Bzhania, Kenny Johnson, Ivan Capelli, Juan Carlos Varela, Bernard Cazeneuve, and Jason Connery. After him are Marija Pejčinović Burić, Julie Payette, Thomas Bickel, Jon Brion, Wang Shu, and Rosario Flores.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jan Arnald ranks 612 out of 1,612Before him are Anders Tegnell (1956), Jörgen Persson (1966), Thomas Wassberg (1956), Sven Nilsson (1787), Carl Swartz (1858), and Martin Lundström (1918). After him are Gösta Andersson (1917), Hans Alfredson (1931), Oscar von Sydow (1873), Erik Lundqvist (1908), Gustaf Åkerhielm (1833), and Arne Selmosson (1931).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Jan Arnald ranks 61Before him are Elin Wägner (1882), Viveca Sten (1959), Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901), Jan Myrdal (1927), Mats Wahl (1945), and Hjalmar Bergman (1883). After him are Sara Lidman (1923), Anna Maria Lenngren (1754), Birgitta Trotzig (1929), Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659), Katarina Frostenson (1953), and Göran Tunström (1937).