WRITER

Jan Arnald

1963 - Today

Photo of Jan Arnald

Icon of person Jan Arnald

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 4,915th most popular writer (down from 4,251st in 2019), the 761st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 611th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Viskleken
Detective and mystery stories
2011
Klä i ord
1997
Artes
2002

Page views of Jan Arnalds by language

Over the past year Jan Arnald has had the most page views in the with 18,852 views, followed by Swedish (11,682), and English (9,866). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (195.92%), Afrikaans (89.25%), and Egyptian Arabic (78.49%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Arnald ranks 4,915 out of 7,302. Before him are Horatio Alger, Alan Paton, C. L. Moore, Diane Ackerman, Eugène Guillevic, and József Katona. After him are Edmund Wilson, Willem Bilderdijk, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, Richard Bentley, Ján Hollý, and Beatriz Galindo.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Jan Arnald ranks 264. Before him are Andy Rubin, Glória Pires, Luc Frieden, Jens Johansson, Kevin Smith, and Dario Marianelli. After him are Gamal Mubarak, Blanca Fernández Ochoa, Jörg Michael, Kenny Johnson, Martín Torrijos, and Julie Payette.

Others Born in 1963

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jan Arnald ranks 761 out of 1,879. Before him are Sven Thofelt (1904), Richard Johansson (1882), Bo Lindman (1899), Lasse Holm (1943), Carl Silfverstrand (1885), and Göran Claeson (1945). After him are Kurt Axelsson (1941), Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659), Jörgen Persson (1966), Gunnar Lindström (1896), Anna Maria Lenngren (1754), and Gösta Andersson (1917).

Others born in Sweden

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Jan Arnald ranks 64. Before him are Runer Jonsson (1916), Birgitta Trotzig (1929), Elin Wägner (1882), Fredrik Backman (1981), Katarina Frostenson (1953), and Barbro Lindgren (1937). After him are Sophia Elisabet Brenner (1659), Anna Maria Lenngren (1754), Mari Jungstedt (1962), Peter Englund (1957), Frank Heller (1886), and Dagny Carlsson (1912).

Swedish born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous