WRITER

Jussi Adler-Olsen

1950 - Today

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Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born 2 August 1950) is a Danish crime fiction writer, a publisher, editor, and entrepreneur, best known for his Department Q series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jussi Adler-Olsen has received more than 639,375 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Jussi Adler-Olsen is the 1,012th most popular writer (up from 1,215th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 130th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Danish Writer.

Jussi Adler-Olsen is most famous for his series of novels about a detective named Carl Mørck who works for the Copenhagen police department.

Memorability Metrics

  • 640k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 1,012 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Giraudoux, Vladimir Bartol, Machado de Assis, Herodian, Juan Antonio Villacañas, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. After him are Noah Gordon, William Gibson, Vasily Zhukovsky, Thomas De Quincey, André Bazin, and August Kubizek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 48. Before him are Gabriel Byrne, Ma Ying-jeou, Russell Alan Hulse, Jody Scheckter, Nouri al-Maliki, and Suzi Quatro. After him are Roza Otunbayeva, Julie Walters, Laura Gemser, Tsugumi Ohba, Vesna Vulović, and Janez Drnovšek.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 115 out of 1,032. Before him are Sophia Brahe (1556), Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873), Boetius of Dacia (1240), and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878). After him are Anna Ancher (1859), Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Sweyn III of Denmark (1125), Erik Bruhn (1928), Prince Valdemar of Denmark (1858), and Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 12. Before him are Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), Sven Hassel (1917), Georg Brandes (1842), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), and Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847). After him are Martin Andersen Nexø (1869), Torben Ulrich (1928), Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ole Nydahl (1941), and Herman Bang (1857).

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