WRITER

Maria Gripe

1923 - 2007

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Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter (25 July 1923 – 5 April 2007), was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books (e.g., the Hugo and Josephine books, the Shadow series, and the titles about Lotten). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Gripe has received more than 58,309 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Gripe is the 2,498th most popular writer (down from 1,671st in 2019), the 354th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 257th in 2019) and the 27th most popular Swedish Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.48

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Hugo och Josefin
Friendship, Juvenile, Sweden
Hugo and Josephine are two very real children. Josephine (who gave herself this name in preference of her dreary real name, Anna Gra) is the mischievous, wispy-haired daughter of a minister in a small Swedish town. At school, she is often teased and at home in the big, old parsonage, she is sometimes lonely. But when Hugo, a wild, happy vagabond comes into her life, everything changes. Hugo, who attends school only if he is not too busy carving trolls or tending his spider collection, is more than a match for the school bullies, let alone the teacher. Their friendship from the opening of school through the Swedish winter darkness, up to a momentous Christmas celebration is a sometimes hilarious but always a touching story. - From Inside Flap
1969
Elvis Karlsson
1972
Josefin
Family life, Fiction
1970
The glassblower's children
Fairy tales
1973
... ellen dellen ..
1974
Pappa Pellerin's daughter
1966

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Maria Gripe ranks 2,498 out of 7,302. Before her are Karin Fossum, Stefan Heym, Walter of Châtillon, Michael Bishop, Dag Solstad, and Antigonus of Carystus. After her are Giovanni de' Bardi, Carlos Marighella, Balthasar Russow, Herman Gorter, Annie M. G. Schmidt, and Alice B. Toklas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Maria Gripe ranks 149. Before her are Edward Mulhare, Bob Dole, Joseph Weizenbaum, Gordon Mitchell, Pahiño, and Faas Wilkes. After her are Ferenc Szusza, Constantin Dăscălescu, Ann Miller, Seijun Suzuki, Shoshana Damari, and Onofre Marimón. Among people deceased in 2007, Maria Gripe ranks 132. Before her are Chandra Shekhar, Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Ivica Račan, Dabbs Greer, Andranik Margaryan, and Barbara West. After her are Malietoa Tanumafili II, Katsuko Saruhashi, Marais Viljoen, Bauer, Ichiji Otani, and Alfonso López Michelsen.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Maria Gripe ranks 354 out of 1,879. Before her are Axel Ljung (1884), Alf Sjöberg (1903), Staffan de Mistura (1947), Jan Troell (1931), Lars Hörmander (1931), and Tomas Brolin (1969). After her are Ola Ullsten (1931), Erik Nilsson (1916), Marika Green (1943), Svante Nilsson (1460), Anders Sparrman (1748), and Ivan Eklind (1905).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Maria Gripe ranks 27. Before her are Per Wahlöö (1926), Stig Dagerman (1923), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Kerstin Ekman (1933), Ulf Stark (1944), and Jonas Jonasson (1961). After her are David Lagercrantz (1962), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Artur Lundkvist (1906), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793).

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