WRITER

Ulf Stark

1944 - 2017

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Ulf Gottfrid Stark (12 July 1944 – 13 June 2017) was a Swedish author and screenwriter (he adapted several of his own books for film and wrote the screenplay for the 1999 film Tsatsiki, morsan och polisen). Stark has collaborated with the illustrators Anna Höglund and Mati Lepp. From 1989 to 1998 he was an elected member of the Swedish Academy for Children's Books. In 1998 he received the Nordic Children's Book Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulf Stark has received more than 53,640 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ulf Stark is the 2,367th most popular writer (up from 3,291st in 2019), the 335th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 448th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Swedish Writer.

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  • 54k

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  • 54.96

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Mein Großer Bruder
Mi Hermano Mayor/My Older Brother
1998
Skärgårdsliv
1967
Maria Bleknos
1985
Låt isbjörnarna dansa
Children's stories, Swedish
1999
Dårfinkar och dönickar
1984

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ulf Stark ranks 2,367 out of 7,302. Before him are Salvadore Cammarano, Vítězslav Nezval, Luigi Illica, Frank McCourt, Ueda Akinari, and William Auld. After him are António Vieira, Ludovico di Varthema, Dionysios Solomos, Leonard Woolf, Edith Hamilton, and Cigerxwîn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Ulf Stark ranks 230. Before him are Rocky Johnson, Gary Glitter, Elizabeth Loftus, Élisabeth Badinter, Robert Hanssen, and Jeffrey Tambor. After him are Claude Nicollier, Mauro Piacenza, Džemaludin Mušović, Phillip Allen Sharp, Abdul Fatah Younis, and Tim Rice. Among people deceased in 2017, Ulf Stark ranks 157. Before him are Richard F. Gordon Jr., William Peter Blatty, Claude Rich, Ludmila Belousova, Mildred Dresselhaus, and Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria. After him are Étienne Tshisekedi, Kate Millett, Viktor Gorbatko, Maryam Mirzakhani, Predrag Matvejević, and Raymond Smullyan.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ulf Stark ranks 335 out of 1,879. Before him are Kurt Atterberg (1887), Bertil Lindblad (1895), Gunnar Nilsson (1948), Kerstin Ekman (1933), Prince Gustaf, Duke of Uppland (1827), and Johan August Brinell (1849). After him are Björn at Haugi (832), Jonas Jonasson (1961), Prince August, Duke of Dalarna (1831), Anne Sofie von Otter (1955), Ronnie Hellström (1949), and Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Ulf Stark ranks 25. Before him are Jan Guillou (1944), Håkan Nesser (1950), Per Wahlöö (1926), Stig Dagerman (1923), Sven Nordqvist (1946), and Kerstin Ekman (1933). After him are Jonas Jonasson (1961), Maria Gripe (1923), David Lagercrantz (1962), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Artur Lundkvist (1906), and Frans G. Bengtsson (1894).

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