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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 36,378 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Thorkild Hansen is the 4,300th most popular writer (down from 3,421st in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 340th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Danish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Thorkild Hansen ranks 4,300 out of 5,755Before him are Gleb Uspensky, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Thomas Middleton, Sidney Howard, Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset, and Tommaso Landolfi. After him are Ahmet Mithat, Carolina Coronado, Olga Orozco, Stephen Baxter, Ki no Tomonori, and Panyassis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Thorkild Hansen ranks 272Before him are Laura Cardoso, Pasqualino De Santis, L. K. Advani, Pierre Aubert, Cesar Chavez, and Joachim Fuchsberger. After him are Arthur Cohn, Alex Katz, Joan Feynman, Estelle Parsons, Aušra Augustinavičiūtė, and Tore Svensson. Among people deceased in 1989, Thorkild Hansen ranks 183Before him are Roy Eldridge, Manuel Rosas, Yannis Tsarouchis, Don Revie, Anton Diffring, and Luiz Luz. After him are George Robledo, Antonio Janigro, Yasuji Miyazaki, Mark Krein, Chico Landi, and Frank Foss.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Thorkild Hansen ranks 419 out of 893Before him are Jacob Ellehammer (1871), Jens Galschiøt (1954), Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737), Ellen Osiier (1890), Niels Neergaard (1854), and Wilhelm Bendz (1804). After him are Johan Nicolai Madvig (1804), Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg (1815), Hans Jacob Nielsen (1899), Anders Hejlsberg (1960), Bodil Joensen (1944), and Peter Arnold Heise (1830).

Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Thorkild Hansen ranks 36Before him are Cecil Bødker (1927), Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791), Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872), Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758), Ari Behn (1972), and Steen Steensen Blicher (1782). After him are Klaus Rifbjerg (1931), Villy Sørensen (1929), Benny Andersen (1929), Carsten Jensen (1952), Dorrit Willumsen (1940), and Henrik Nordbrandt (1945).