WRITER

Sven Lindqvist

1932 - 2019

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Sven Oskar Lindqvist (28 March 1932 – 14 May 2019) was a prolific Swedish author whose 35 books range from essays, aphorisms, autobiography, and documentary prose to travel and reportage. He was educated at Stockholm University, and spent a year as a cultural attaché in Beijing, but spent most of his life as a writer, known for his persistence and independence. In the 1970s he established the public history movement Dig Where You Stand. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sven Lindqvist has received more than 149,393 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Sven Lindqvist is the 3,858th most popular writer (down from 2,850th in 2019), the 559th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 393rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 150k

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  • 50.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.99

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  • 2.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Exterminate All the Brutes
Genocide, History, Racism
1997
"Exterminate all the brutes"
Description and travel, Travel, Rassismus
1996
China in crisis
Intellectual life, History
1965
A History of Bombing
Luftangriff, Geschichte, Aerial Bombing
2000
Jord och makt i Sydamerika
1973
Myten om Wu Tao-tzu
1967
Historia De Los Bombardeos
2002
"Exterminate all the brutes"
Description and travel, Travel, Rassismus
"Exterminate All the Brutes" is a unique study of Europe's dark history in Africa, written in the form of a travel diary and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Like Edward Said's Orientalism, Lindqvist's book examines the history of European racism, setting Conrad's Heart of Darkness in context and tracing the legacy of the writings of European explorers and theologians, politicians and historians, from the late eighteenth century on, in an effort to help us understand that most terrifying of Conrad's lines, "Exterminate all the brutes." Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism that led to the Holocaust in the twentieth century had its roots in European colonial policy of the preceding century. This is an argument that was made in Hannah Arendt's celebrated Origins of Totalitarianism, but Lindqvist approaches it differently, with the insights of an artist and biographer. "Exterminate All the Brutes" raises questions uniquely appropriate to the current American debate on the depth and costs of racism today.
1996
A History of Bombing
Luftangriff, Geschichte, Aerial Bombing
2000
Exterminate All the Brutes
Genocide, History, Racism
1997
Dead Do Not Die
Racism, Racism in literature, Aboriginal australians, government relations
2014
Terra Nullius
Aboriginal australians, government relations, Australia, description and travel, Aboriginal Australians
2007

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sven Lindqvist ranks 3,858 out of 7,302. Before her are Han Kang, Veniamin Kaverin, Elisaveta Bagriana, Sophia Parnok, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, and Attilâ İlhan. After her are Jaroslav Vrchlický, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Herman Wouk, Claude Favre de Vaugelas, William Hazlitt, and Ari Behn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sven Lindqvist ranks 255. Before her are Lajos Csordás, Miroslav Hroch, Turgay Şeren, Banharn Silpa-archa, Phyllida Law, and Sergio Toppi. After her are Alain Besançon, Felicia Farr, Mongo Beti, Edgar Reitz, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Jean Stablinski. Among people deceased in 2019, Sven Lindqvist ranks 247. Before her are Mark Zakharov, Gloria Vanderbilt, Pedro Manfredini, Jacques Dupont, Jurica Jerković, and Omero Antonutti. After her are Herman Wouk, Ari Behn, Nanni Galli, Don Bragg, Marlen Khutsiev, and Donald Keene.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Lindqvist ranks 559 out of 1,879. Before her are Ernst Fast (1881), Bengt Danielsson (1921), Arne Selmosson (1931), Gösta Ekman (1939), Ivar Jacobson (1939), and Hasse Jeppson (1925). After her are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Karl Staaff (1860), Caspar Bartholin the Elder (1585), Torsten Hägerstrand (1916), Sven Axbom (1926), and Hjalmar Bergman (1883).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Sven Lindqvist ranks 46. Before her are Gunilla Bergström (1942), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Viktor Rydberg (1828), Liza Marklund (1962), Viveca Sten (1959), and Torgny Lindgren (1938). After her are Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Hjalmar Bergman (1883), Gustaf Fröding (1860), Moa Martinson (1890), Dagmar Lange (1914), and Lina Sandell (1832).

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