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Cordelia Edvardson

1929 - 2012

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Cordelia Maria Edvardson (née Langgässer; 1 January 1929 – 29 October 2012) was a German-born Swedish journalist, author and Holocaust survivor. She was the Jerusalem correspondent for Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish daily newspaper, from 1977 to 2006. Edvardson reported extensively on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, remaining a columnist for Svenska Dagbladet after leaving her post in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cordelia Edvardson is the 4,158th most popular writer (up from 4,816th in 2019), the 4,169th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,557th in 2019) and the 253rd most popular German Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Cordelia Edvardson ranks 4,158 out of 7,302Before her are Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, Josef Kajetán Tyl, Pepetela, Jan Brzechwa, David Shore, and Julia Balbilla. After her are René Wellek, Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, Hart Crane, Dušan Kovačević, Alexander McCall Smith, and Edna Ferber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Cordelia Edvardson ranks 310Before her are Bob Hawke, Karl-Erik Palmér, Rolan Bykov, Slavko Avsenik, Paul England, and Burhan Sargun. After her are Horst Frank, André Darrigade, Jacques Plante, Walter Berry, Mikhail Simonov, and Costa Pereira. Among people deceased in 2012, Cordelia Edvardson ranks 243Before her are Rafael Lesmes, Xenia Stad-de Jong, Margaret Osborne duPont, William Windom, Eugênio Sales, and Ahmed Jabari. After her are Boris Parygin, Leon Schlumpf, Nelson Prudêncio, Paul Pietsch, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Félicien Marceau.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Cordelia Edvardson ranks 4,171 out of 7,253Before her are Erick-Oskar Hansen (1889), Alfred Müller-Armack (1901), Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682), Alfred Bickel (1918), Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773), and Ruth Fischer (1895). After her are Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Wolfgang Flür (1947), Walburga Habsburg Douglas (1958), Johann Theile (1646), Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842), and Frederick Loewe (1901).

Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Cordelia Edvardson ranks 253Before her are Emmy Hennings (1885), Carl Sternheim (1878), Maximilian Harden (1861), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), Ken Adam (1921), and Irmgard Keun (1905). After her are Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Ruth Westheimer (1928), Max Lange (1832), Emanuel Geibel (1815), James Krüss (1926), and Joachim Ringelnatz (1883).