WRITER

Pentti Linkola

1932 - 2020

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Kaarlo Pentti Linkola (7 December 1932 in Helsinki – 5 April 2020) was a prominent Finnish deep ecologist, ornithologist, polemicist, naturalist, writer, and fisherman. He wrote widely about his ideas and in Finland was a prominent thinker,: 271  and is linked by some authors to ecofascism and to authoritarian deep ecology. Linkola was a year-round fisherman from 1959 to 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pentti Linkola has received more than 405,292 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Pentti Linkola is the 2,239th most popular writer (up from 2,242nd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Finland (down from 88th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Finnish Writer.

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  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.38

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Johdatus 1990-luvun ajatteluun
1989
Unelmat paremmasta maailmasta
1990
Kirjeitä Linkolan ohjelmasta
Toisinajattelijan päiväkirjasta
1979

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pentti Linkola ranks 2,239 out of 7,302. Before him are Felice Romani, Udo Lindenberg, Arkady Gaidar, Magnus Felix Ennodius, Adikavi Pampa, and Guido Gezelle. After him are Rosika Schwimmer, Hendrik Conscience, Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark, Johan Bojer, Andreas Capellanus, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Pentti Linkola ranks 160. Before him are Boris Shakhlin, Dhirubhai Ambani, Nichelle Nichols, Spyros Kyprianou, József Antall, and Félix Malloum. After him are Frances E. Allen, Horst Eckel, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Bill Foulkes, Karen Demirchyan, and José Saraiva Martins. Among people deceased in 2020, Pentti Linkola ranks 149. Before him are Manolis Glezos, Mustafa Nadarević, Claude Bolling, Joaquín Peiró, Pierre Nkurunziza, and Jerry Rawlings. After him are Frances E. Allen, Borys Paton, Edmund M. Clarke, Astrid Kirchherr, Mesut Yılmaz, and Jean Raspail.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Pentti Linkola ranks 96 out of 751. Before him are Aimo Cajander (1879), Minna Canth (1844), Ilmari Juutilainen (1914), Matti Järvinen (1909), Tapio Wirkkala (1915), and Sanna Marin (1985). After him are Rolf Nevanlinna (1895), Arvid Horn (1664), Väinö Tanner (1881), Fredrika Bremer (1801), Mauritz Stiller (1883), and Alexander von Nordmann (1803).

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Among WRITERS In Finland

Among writers born in Finland, Pentti Linkola ranks 13. Before him are Aleksis Kivi (1834), Zachris Topelius (1818), Eino Leino (1878), Väinö Linna (1920), Juhani Aho (1861), and Minna Canth (1844). After him are Fredrika Bremer (1801), Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943), Bo Carpelan (1926), Paavo Haavikko (1931), Johannes Linnankoski (1869), and Lydia Chukovskaya (1907).

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