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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 140,157 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Sven Lindqvist is the 2,861st most popular writer (up from 3,706th in 2019), the 394th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 518th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 140k

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  • 52.05

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sven Lindqvist ranks 2,861 out of 5,755Before her are Ubayd Zakani, Raffi, Symeon of Polotsk, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Al-Asmaʿi, and Claude Farrère. After her are John Banville, Antonio de Guevara, Jeppe Aakjær, Nathan Birnbaum, Mika Antić, and Booker T. Washington.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Sven Lindqvist ranks 187Before her are Michihiro Ozawa, Yukio Shimomura, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Vladimir Voinovich, Tommy Taylor, and King Hu. After her are Mika Antić, Majel Barrett, John Glen, Eileen Brennan, Qahhor Mahkamov, and Helmut Griem. Among people deceased in 2019, Sven Lindqvist ranks 171Before her are Sylvia Miles, José Luis Brown, Krishna Sobti, Vonda N. McIntyre, Peggy Lipton, and Momir Bulatović. After her are Prosper Grech, Seymour Cassel, Don Alden Adams, Charles Gérard, Margarita Salas, and David Koch.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Sven Lindqvist ranks 394 out of 1,612Before her are Pehr Osbeck (1723), Estrid of the Obotrites (979), Johan Helmich Roman (1694), Prince Frederick Adolf, Duke of Östergötland (1750), Princess Amalia of Sweden (1805), and Lennart Nilsson (1922). After her are Tore Keller (1905), Augustin Ehrensvärd (1710), Eugène Jansson (1862), Artur Lundkvist (1906), Sophie Adlersparre (1823), and Anders Dahl (1751).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Sven Lindqvist ranks 33Before her are Jonas Jonasson (1961), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Esaias Tegnér (1782), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793), and Victoria Benedictsson (1850). After her are Artur Lundkvist (1906), Lars Norén (1944), Gunnar Ekelöf (1907), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Leif G. W. Persson (1945), and Ulf Stark (1944).