WRITER

Olav Duun

1876 - 1939

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Olav Duun (21 November 1876 – 13 September 1939) was a writer of Norwegian fiction. He is generally recognized to be one of the more outstanding writers in Norwegian literature. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olav Duun has received more than 37,794 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Olav Duun is the 4,174th most popular writer (up from 4,258th in 2019), the 256th most popular biography from Norway (up from 261st in 2019) and the 48th most popular Norwegian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 38k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Floodtide of fate
Fiction
1960
Siste leveåre
1933
The people of Juvik
Fiction
1930
Samtid
1936
Menneske og maktene
1956
Olsøygutane
1927
Floodtide of fate
Fiction
1960
The people of Juvik
Fiction
1930
Menneske og maktene
1956
Samtid
1936
Olsøygutane
1927
Siste leveåre
1933

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Olav Duun ranks 4,174 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacqueline de Romilly, Oskar Luts, Jean-Louis de Rambures, Tullio Pinelli, Conrad Aiken, and Vassilis Alexakis. After him are Carolina Coronado, Philoxenus of Mabbug, Lydia Chukovskaya, Sahar Khalifeh, Rachid Boudjedra, and Miyamoto Yuriko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Olav Duun ranks 139. Before him are Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini, Ameen Rihani, Carl Albert Andersen, Stepan Erzia, Solomon Lozovsky, and Sidney Robinson. After him are Stylianos Gonatas, Hippolyte Aucouturier, Sotirios Versis, Max O. Lorenz, Felix Jacoby, and Walter Burley Griffin. Among people deceased in 1939, Olav Duun ranks 109. Before him are Wojciech Korfanty, Otto Siffling, Walery Sławek, Aleksander Brückner, Henri Jaspar, and Ursula Ledóchowska. After him are Vladislav Khodasevich, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Frank Watson Dyson, Eulalio Gutiérrez, Charles P. Dixon, and Władysław Raginis.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Olav Duun ranks 256 out of 1,039. Before him are Magnar Solberg (1937), Ole Jacob Broch (1818), Olav Bjaaland (1873), Steinar Amundsen (1945), Marit Bjørgen (1980), and Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (1961). After him are Vegard Ulvang (1963), Tormod Knutsen (1932), Roy Jacobsen (1954), Rolf Løvland (1955), Inger Aufles (1941), and Halfdan Kjerulf (1815).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Olav Duun ranks 48. Before him are Johan Herman Wessel (1742), Johan Turi (1854), Alf Prøysen (1914), Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634), Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866), and Anne-Cath. Vestly (1920). After him are Roy Jacobsen (1954), Erlend Loe (1969), Jens Bjørneboe (1920), Olav Aukrust (1883), Linn Ullmann (1966), and Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771).

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