1963 - Today
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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Among writers, Jan Arnald ranks 4,264 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1916 - 1986
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 4,258
1874 - 1960
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 4,259
1746 - 1818
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 4,260
1951 - Present
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 4,261
1847 - 1908
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 4,262
1873 - 1961
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 4,263
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 4,264
1934 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 4,265
1889 - 1981
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 4,266
1874 - 1918
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 4,267
1922 - 1998
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 4,268
1928 - 2006
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 4,269
1837 - 1873
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 4,270
Among people born in 1963, Jan Arnald ranks 208. Before 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.
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 202
1963 - Present
HPI: 48.02
Rank: 203
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.96
Rank: 204
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 205
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.90
Rank: 206
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.81
Rank: 207
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 208
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 209
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 210
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.77
Rank: 211
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 212
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.69
Rank: 213
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 214
Among people born in Sweden, Jan Arnald ranks 612 out of 1,612. Before 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).
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 606
1966 - Present
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 607
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 608
1787 - 1883
HPI: 47.86
Rank: 609
1858 - 1926
HPI: 47.84
Rank: 610
1918 - 2016
HPI: 47.83
Rank: 611
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 612
1917 - 1975
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 613
1931 - 2017
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 614
1873 - 1936
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 615
1908 - 1963
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 616
1833 - 1900
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 617
1931 - 2002
HPI: 47.67
Rank: 618
Among writers born in Sweden, Jan Arnald ranks 61. Before 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).
1882 - 1949
HPI: 48.44
Rank: 55
1959 - Present
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 56
1901 - 1990
HPI: 48.36
Rank: 57
1927 - 2020
HPI: 48.30
Rank: 58
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.23
Rank: 59
1883 - 1931
HPI: 48.07
Rank: 60
1963 - Present
HPI: 47.80
Rank: 61
1923 - 2004
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 62
1754 - 1817
HPI: 47.04
Rank: 63
1929 - 2011
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 64
1659 - 1730
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 65
1953 - Present
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 66
1937 - 2000
HPI: 46.28
Rank: 67