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Stig Dagerman

1923 - 1954

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Stig Halvard Dagerman (5 October 1923 – 4 November 1954) was a Swedish author and journalist prominent in the aftermath of World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stig Dagerman has received more than 116,024 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Stig Dagerman is the 1,344th most popular writer (up from 1,448th in 2019), the 203rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 215th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 120k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Stig Dagerman ranks 1,344 out of 5,755Before him are Nikolaus Lenau, Hartmann von Aue, Jakob Wassermann, Joyce Carol Oates, Radoje Domanović, and William Styron. After him are Ka'b ibn al-Ashraf, Samuel R. Delany, Daniel Pennac, Ibn Khallikan, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, and James Oliver Curwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Stig Dagerman ranks 63Before him are Walter Kohn, Freeman Dyson, Rasul Gamzatov, Shūsaku Endō, Chuck Yeager, and Hank Williams. After him are Bert Trautmann, Chaleo Yoovidhya, Victoria de los Ángeles, Norman Mailer, Reinhart Koselleck, and Richard Avedon. Among people deceased in 1954, Stig Dagerman ranks 34Before him are Léon Jouhaux, Thea von Harbou, Clemens Krauss, Franco Alfano, Gideon Sundback, and Archduke Eugen of Austria. After him are Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Viktor Abakumov, Sadriddin Ayni, Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Ivan Ilyin, and Princess Margaret of Prussia.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Stig Dagerman ranks 203 out of 1,612Before him are Mats Wilander (1964), Nicolai Gedda (1925), Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745), Per Gessle (1959), Sigvard Bernadotte (1907), and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722). After him are Carl Bildt (1949), Stig Anderson (1931), Yngwie Malmsteen (1963), Maud Adams (1945), Salomon August Andrée (1854), and Eric X of Sweden (1180).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Stig Dagerman ranks 15Before him are Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Ellen Key (1849), Per Olov Enquist (1934), and Maj Sjöwall (1935). After him are Håkan Nesser (1950), Jan Guillou (1944), Olaus Petri (1493), Per Wahlöö (1926), Maria Gripe (1923), and Camilla Läckberg (1974).