WRITER

Per Wahlöö

1926 - 1975

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Per Fredrik Wahlöö (5 August 1926 – 22 June 1975) – in English translations often identified as Peter Wahloo – was a Swedish author. He is perhaps best known for the collaborative work with his partner Maj Sjöwall on a series of ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm, published between 1965 and 1975. In 1971, The Laughing Policeman (a translation of Den skrattande polisen, originally published in 1968) won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Per Wahlöö has received more than 118,814 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Per Wahlöö is the 1,852nd most popular writer (down from 1,631st in 2019), the 278th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 255th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 56.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Stålsprånget
1968
The assignment
Swedish fiction
1965
(Mannen på balkongen) The man on the balcony:the story of a crime
Fiction, Police, Martin Beck (Fictitious character)
Number 3 in the Martin Beck Mystery series.
1968
The laughing policeman (Skrattande polisen)
Fiction, Police, Martin Beck (Fictitious character)
1970
Lastbilen
1962
Roseanna
Murder, Police, Martin Beck (Fictitious character)
"The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries ... finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler. On a July afternoon, a young woman's body is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues, Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise. As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a muderer with a distinctive -- indeed, terrifying -- sense of propriety"--P. [4] of cover.
1967

Page views of Per Wahlöö by language

Over the past year Per Wahlöö has had the most page views in the with 11,226 views, followed by Swedish (9,327), and German (8,702). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (53.20%), Hungarian (37.92%), and Danish (33.20%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Per Wahlöö ranks 1,852 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Gerhardt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caecilius Statius, Thomas Keneally, Mustafa Balel, and Cesare Zavattini. After him are Zinaida Gippius, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Anne Sexton, William Moulton Marston, Gurju Khatun, and Zeki Müren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Per Wahlöö ranks 130. Before him are Estanislau Basora, Teddy Scholten, Salah Jadid, Valerio Zurlini, Peter Graves, and Nina Kulagina. After him are Thorbjörn Fälldin, Gordon Scott, Amadeo Carrizo, Erich Juskowiak, Bal Thackeray, and Sergio Pininfarina. Among people deceased in 1975, Per Wahlöö ranks 66. Before him are Michel Simon, Eugen Fink, Fredric March, George Stevens, Hans Bellmer, and Ivan Maisky. After him are Walker Evans, Hans Swarowsky, Hiroshi Ōshima, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Annette Kellermann, and Nihal Atsız.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Per Wahlöö ranks 278 out of 1,879. Before him are Joey Tempest (1963), Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (1982), Bruno Liljefors (1860), Börje Salming (1951), Stig Blomqvist (1946), and Helge von Koch (1870). After him are Thorbjörn Fälldin (1926), Oskar Klein (1894), Christopher Polhem (1661), Princess Cecilia of Sweden (1807), Mikael Persbrandt (1963), and Stig Dagerman (1923).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Per Wahlöö ranks 21. Before him are Elsa Beskow (1874), Olaus Petri (1493), Hjalmar Söderberg (1869), Camilla Läckberg (1974), Jan Guillou (1944), and Håkan Nesser (1950). After him are Stig Dagerman (1923), Sven Nordqvist (1946), Kerstin Ekman (1933), Ulf Stark (1944), Jonas Jonasson (1961), and Maria Gripe (1923).

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