WRITER

Jan Myrdal

1927 - 2020

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Jan Myrdal (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020) was a Swedish author known for his strident Maoist, anti-imperialist and contrarian views and heterodox and highly subjective style of autobiography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Myrdal has received more than 106,790 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Myrdal is the 4,453rd most popular writer (down from 4,099th in 2019), the 655th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 579th in 2019) and the 57th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 110k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Rapport från kinesisk by
Social life and customs, China (People's Republic of China, 1949-), Mœurs et coutumes
1965
Confessions of a disloyal European
Europe, biography, Fiction, general
1968
Report from a Chinese village
Social life and customs, Manners and customs
1965
Chinese journey
Pictorial works, Description and travel, China
1965
China
Social life and customs, China
1970
Confessions of a disloyal European
1968

Page views of Jan Myrdals by language

Over the past year Jan Myrdal has had the most page views in the with 50,283 views, followed by English (13,674), and German (2,016). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (121.38%), Simple English (116.72%), and Belarusian (73.93%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jan Myrdal ranks 4,453 out of 7,302. Before him are Arthur Ransome, Olaf Bull, Sāyaṇa, Ariel Dorfman, Gudrun Pausewang, and Severus Sanctus Endelechius. After him are Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Einar Benediktsson, Helen Thomas, Dai Sijie, Sakina Akhundzadeh, and Kostandin Kristoforidhi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Jan Myrdal ranks 280. Before him are Robert Alt, Hirotugu Akaike, Tihomir Ognjanov, George O. Abell, Harold Brown, and Svyatoslav Fyodorov. After him are Joachim Fuchsberger, Serge Lang, Arturo Armando Molina, Otto Stich, Oskar Pastior, and Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani. Among people deceased in 2020, Jan Myrdal ranks 366. Before him are Yuri Bondarev, Wolfgang Uhlmann, John D. Barrow, Gergely Kulcsár, Jerry Sloan, and Gudrun Pausewang. After him are Giorgi Shengelaia, Inna Makarova, Murad Wilfried Hofmann, Allen Garfield, Tom Lister Jr., and John Baldessari.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jan Myrdal ranks 655 out of 1,879. Before him are Sara Lidman (1923), Oscar von Sydow (1873), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Henock Abrahamsson (1909), Jacob Bjerknes (1897), and Georg Åberg (1893). After him are Anders Frisk (1963), Janne Andersson (1962), Joel Kinnaman (1979), Arne Nyberg (1913), Claes Johanson (1884), and Pia Degermark (1949).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Jan Myrdal ranks 57. Before him are Dagmar Lange (1914), Lina Sandell (1832), Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718), Dan Andersson (1888), Ivar Lo-Johansson (1901), and Sara Lidman (1923). After him are Runer Jonsson (1916), Birgitta Trotzig (1929), Elin Wägner (1882), Fredrik Backman (1981), Katarina Frostenson (1953), and Barbro Lindgren (1937).

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