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WRITER

Jens Bjørneboe

1920 - 1976

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Jens Ingvald Bjørneboe (9 October 1920 – 9 May 1976) was a Norwegian writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a Waldorf school teacher. Bjørneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western civilization as a whole. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jens Bjørneboe has received more than 96,285 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jens Bjørneboe is the 4,512th most popular writer (down from 3,472nd in 2019), the 274th most popular biography from Norway (down from 232nd in 2019) and the 50th most popular Norwegian Writer.

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  • 46.98

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jens Bjørneboe ranks 4,512 out of 5,755. Before him are Dun Karm Psaila, Manuel Alegre, Gáspár Heltai, Paul Louis Courier, Nikolay Mikhaylovsky, and W. W. Jacobs. After him are Sergei Lukyanenko, Adolf Brand, Hadiya Davletshina, Peter Härtling, Ángel Ganivet, and Wolfgang Koeppen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Jens Bjørneboe ranks 280. Before him are Rudolf Kárpáti, Alberto Crespo, Anselmo Duarte, Vincentas Sladkevičius, Mustafa Khalil, and Richard Bong. After him are Lea Padovani, Helen Thomas, Kenneth E. Iverson, Konstantin Beskov, Natalya Kovshova, and An Wang. Among people deceased in 1976, Jens Bjørneboe ranks 167. Before him are Ernst Albrecht, Lily Pons, Victor Varconi, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Zofia Stryjeńska, and John C. Slater. After him are Edith Evans, Markus Reiner, Ritwik Ghatak, Johnny Mercer, Julius Döpfner, and Alfred Landé.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Jens Bjørneboe ranks 274 out of 927. Before him are Axel Thue (1863), Bernt Michael Holmboe (1795), Kristine Bonnevie (1872), Tom Henning Øvrebø (1966), Finn Ronne (1899), and Erlend Loe (1969). After him are Adolph Tidemand (1814), John Lyng (1905), Paul Egede (1708), Sam Eyde (1866), Roy Jacobsen (1954), and Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Jens Bjørneboe ranks 50. Before him are Johan Bojer (1872), Karl Ove Knausgård (1968), Knud Knudsen (1812), Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866), Olav Duun (1876), and Erlend Loe (1969). After him are Roy Jacobsen (1954), Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771), Olav Aukrust (1883), Jan Kjærstad (1953), Linn Ullmann (1966), and Gunnar Heiberg (1857).

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