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Jonas Jonasson

1961 - Today

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Pär-Ola Jonas Jonasson (born Per Ola Jonasson; 6 July 1961) is a Swedish journalist and writer, best known as the author of the best-seller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonas Jonasson has received more than 333,275 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Jonas Jonasson is the 2,374th most popular writer (up from 2,484th in 2019), the 337th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 347th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.44

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Hundredyearold Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared
2012
La analfabeta que era un genio de los números
2014
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
2019
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
South Africans, Nuclear weapons, Diamond smugglers
In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse ... Nombeko ends up the prisoner of an incompetent engineer in a research facility working on South Africa's secret nuclear arsenal. Yet the unstoppable Nombeko pulls off a daring escape to Sweden, where she meets twins named Holger One and Holger Two, who are carrying out a mission to bring down the Swedish monarchy ... by any means necessary. Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of the twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day -- and possibly the world.
2014
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
2009
El matón que soñaba con un lugar en el paraíso
2016

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jonas Jonasson ranks 2,374 out of 7,302. Before him are António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, Dionysios Solomos, Leonard Woolf, Edith Hamilton, and Cigerxwîn. After him are Pierre Souvestre, Fredrika Bremer, Neil Postman, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, Aagje Deken, and Aino Kallas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Jonas Jonasson ranks 94. Before him are Lea Thompson, Ralph Macchio, Liam Cunningham, Andrey Kurkov, Jacky Cheung, and Ignazio Cassis. After him are Dylan McDermott, Franky Van der Elst, Sergei Aleinikov, Eric Stoltz, Tom Araya, and Bernard Werber.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jonas Jonasson ranks 337 out of 1,879. Before him are Gunnar Nilsson (1948), Kerstin Ekman (1933), Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland (1827), Johan August Brinell (1849), Ulf Stark (1944), and Björn at Haugi (832). After him are Prince August, Duke of Dalarna (1831), Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), Ronnie Hellström (1949), Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818), Kristina Söderbaum (1912), and Olof Thunberg (1925).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Jonas Jonasson ranks 26. Before him are Håkan Nesser (1950), Per Wahlöö (1926), Stig Dagerman (1923), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Kerstin Ekman (1933), and Ulf Stark (1944). After him are Maria Gripe (1923), David Lagercrantz (1962), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Artur Lundkvist (1906), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), and Vilhelm Moberg (1898).

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