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WRITER

Kjell Ola Dahl

1958 - Today

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Kjell Ola Dahl (born 4 February 1958) is a Norwegian writer, who is sometimes known professionally as K. O. Dahl. His writing career began with the publishing of Dødens Investeringer (Lethal Investments) in 1993 and he has subsequently authored more than a dozen novels, many short stories, several non-fiction books, and co-written two screenplays with the writer/director Hisham Zaman. He is best known for his eleven Nordic noir crime novels which feature his Oslo detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kjell Ola Dahl has received more than 32,459 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kjell Ola Dahl is the 5,427th most popular writer (down from 4,647th in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from Norway (down from 325th in 2019) and the 66th most popular Norwegian Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kjell Ola Dahl ranks 5,427 out of 5,755. Before him are Serhiy Zhadan, Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Akiva Goldsman, Pat Barker, Whittaker Chambers, and Robin Morgan. After him are Delfina Bunge, Claude Esteban, Dafydd ap Gwilym, Margaret Drabble, Robert B. Sherman, and Florian Zeller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Kjell Ola Dahl ranks 321. Before him are Giovanni Lavaggi, André Kuipers, Salah Assad, Feng Xiaogang, Francesco Damiani, and Curt Hennig. After him are Juliano Mer-Khamis, Michael Robinson, Martin Whitmarsh, Bill Berry, Thomas Reiter, and Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Kjell Ola Dahl ranks 412 out of 927. Before him are Hanne Krogh (1956), Gunnar Knudsen (1848), Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873), C. J. Hambro (1885), Marte Olsbu Røiseland (1990), and Per Ivar Moe (1944). After him are Ole Lilloe-Olsen (1883), Christopher Hornsrud (1859), Hans Beyer (1889), Sigvard Sivertsen (1881), Åsne Seierstad (1970), and Lene Marlin (1980).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Kjell Ola Dahl ranks 66. Before him are Dag Solstad (1941), Arnulf Øverland (1889), Johan Sebastian Welhaven (1807), Jørn Lier Horst (1970), Kjartan Fløgstad (1944), and Ingvar Ambjørnsen (1956). After him are Åsne Seierstad (1970), Hans Jæger (1854), Kåre Holt (1916), Vigdis Hjorth (1959), Tom Egeland (1959), and Kim Leine (1961).

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