WRITER

Torgny Lindgren

1938 - 2017

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Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer. Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Torgny Lindgren has received more than 50,163 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Torgny Lindgren is the 3,804th most popular writer (down from 3,784th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 527th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 50.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Torgny Lindgren ranks 3,804 out of 7,302Before him are Stevan Sremac, Eric Ambler, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Teffi, Kočo Racin, and François Cavanna. After him are Francis Scott Key, Gennadius of Massilia, Alexander Volkov, Jane Wilde, Ramiro de Maeztu, and Henry Adams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Torgny Lindgren ranks 297Before him are Mirko Novosel, John Kufuor, Cayetano Ré, Alfred Raoul, Gimax, and Mahmoud El-Gohary. After him are Scilla Gabel, Antonio Maria Vegliò, Marita Lindahl, James W. Christy, Michael Verhoeven, and Teresa de Lauretis. Among people deceased in 2017, Torgny Lindgren ranks 247Before him are Prodigy, Hans Alfredson, Gisèle Casadesus, Gorden Kaye, Vitaly Churkin, and Vladimir Petrov. After him are Željko Perušić, Eugene Garfield, Tony Atkinson, Svend Asmussen, Ruth Pfau, and Gösta Ekman.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torgny Lindgren ranks 551 out of 1,879Before him are Thomas Hammarberg (1942), Kiki Håkansson (1929), Axel Cadier (1906), Viveca Sten (1959), Amalia Lindegren (1814), and Sven Nilsson (1787). After him are Lars Fredrik Nilson (1840), Ernst Fast (1881), Bengt Danielsson (1921), Arne Selmosson (1931), Gösta Ekman (1939), and Ivar Jacobson (1939).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Torgny Lindgren ranks 45Before him are Leif G. W. Persson (1945), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Viktor Rydberg (1828), Liza Marklund (1962), and Viveca Sten (1959). After him are Sven Lindqvist (1932), Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790), Hjalmar Bergman (1883), Gustaf Fröding (1860), Moa Martinson (1890), and Dagmar Lange (1914).