WRITER

Verner von Heidenstam

1859 - 1940

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Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940) was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Verner von Heidenstam has received more than 129,833 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Verner von Heidenstam is the 475th most popular writer (up from 638th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 89th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swedish Writer.

He is most famous for his epic poem "The Great War."

Memorability Metrics

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  • 67.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Sweden's laureate
Swedish poetry
1919
Heliga Birgittas pilgrimsfärd
1901
Skogen susar
1904
Svenskarna och deras hövdingar
1908
Karolinerna
1897
Hans Alienus
1892
The Charles Men; Volume 1
2018
Brev
Correspondence, Swedish Authors
1949
Heliga Birgittas pilgrimsfärd
1901
Skogen susar
1904
Karolinerna
Fiction, History, Kings and rulers
1897
Hans Alienus
1892

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 475 out of 7,302. Before him are Jules Michelet, Athenaeus, Louise de La Vallière, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Livius Andronicus, and Milena Jesenská. After him are Natsume Sōseki, Bohumil Hrabal, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Martial, W. B. Yeats, and Miguel Ángel Asturias.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 15. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Seurat, Yuan Shikai, Billy the Kid, and Sholem Aleichem. After him are Jean Jaurès, Alexandre Millerand, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, Pierre Janet, and Alexander Stepanovich Popov. Among people deceased in 1940, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 16. Before him are Nikolai Yezhov, Carl Bosch, Peter Behrens, Arthur Harden, Emma Goldman, and Manuel Azaña. After him are Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Isaac Babel, Wladimir Köppen, John Buchan, Italo Balbo, and Spyridon Louis.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 72 out of 1,879. Before him are Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948), Arne Tiselius (1902), Hilma af Klint (1862), Dolph Lundgren (1957), Theodor Svedberg (1884), and Eyvind Johnson (1900). After him are Louise of Sweden (1851), Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Sven Hedin (1865), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), and Olof Skötkonung (980).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 8. Before him are Astrid Lindgren (1907), August Strindberg (1849), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Henning Mankell (1948), and Eyvind Johnson (1900). After him are Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Ellen Key (1849), Per Olov Enquist (1934), Maj Sjöwall (1935), and Karin Boye (1900).

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