WRITER

Thorkild Hansen

1927 - 1989

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Thorkild Hansen (9 January 1927 – 4 February 1989) was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is popularly known for his trilogy of novels about the Danish slave trade which is composed of Coast of Slaves (1967), Ships of Slaves (1968), and Islands of Slaves (1970; for which he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1971). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thorkild Hansen has received more than 39,160 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Thorkild Hansen is the 3,595th most popular writer (up from 4,287th in 2019), the 356th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 417th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Danish Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Søforhør
Danish Authors, Interviews
1982
Enemærker
1989
Det lykkelige Arabien
Description and travel
1967
Jens Munk
1965
Vinterhavn
Description and travel
1972
Øer
Danish Authors, Description and travel, Travel
1993
Enemærker
1989
Arabia Felix
Description and travel, Travel
1964
Øer
Danish Authors, Description and travel, Travel
1993
Jens Munk
1965
Jens Munk
1965
Arabia Felix
Scientific expeditions, Travel, Danes
"A riveting account of a landmark expedition that left only one survivor, now back in print for the first time in decades. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously astray. On a winter morning in 1761 six men leave Copenhagen by sea--a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant--an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the first Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans, an enterprise that had the support of the Danish Crown and was keenly followed throughout Europe. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly seven years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself a forgotten man and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect. Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is both a comedy of intellectual rivalry and very bad manners and an utterly absorbing tale of high adventure. Arabia Felix includes 33 line drawings and maps"--
1964

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thorkild Hansen ranks 3,595 out of 7,302. Before him are Paavo Haavikko, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, Georgi Pulevski, António Ferreira, Christopher Hampton, and Mazo de la Roche. After him are Alfréd Wetzler, Teofilo Folengo, David Bergelson, Mikhail Isakovsky, James Tiptree Jr., and Elin Pelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Thorkild Hansen ranks 219. Before him are Adrián Escudero, Alma Adamkienė, Micheline Bernardini, Greta Andersen, Roger Carel, and Yusuf Idris. After him are Liane Augustin, Fathima Beevi, John Cranko, John Ashbery, Jerry Schatzberg, and William Perry. Among people deceased in 1989, Thorkild Hansen ranks 150. Before him are Wilfrid Sellars, Donald Barthelme, Pavel Kurochkin, Kazimierz Sabbat, Clyde Geronimi, and Ćamil Sijarić. After him are Gilles Andriamahazo, Nikolai Grinko, Hilmar Baunsgaard, Luiz Gonzaga, Henri Sauguet, and Huey P. Newton.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Thorkild Hansen ranks 356 out of 1,032. Before him are Henry Hansen (1902), Jakob Nielsen (1957), Kurt Nielsen (1930), Princess Charlotte Amalie of Denmark (1706), Bernhard Rogge (1899), and Greta Andersen (1927). After him are Johnny Hansen (1943), Agner Krarup Erlang (1878), Johannes Jørgensen (1866), Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789), Johan Otto von Spreckelsen (1929), and Mikkel Hansen (1987).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Thorkild Hansen ranks 31. Before him are Peter Høeg (1957), Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872), Jens Baggesen (1764), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), Cecil Bødker (1927), and Johannes Ewald (1743). After him are Johannes Jørgensen (1866), Bernhard Severin Ingemann (1789), Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791), Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758), Lise Nørgaard (1917), and Ari Behn (1972).

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