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Eyvind Johnson

1900 - 1976

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Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eyvind Johnson is the 347th most popular writer (up from 466th in 2019), the 55th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 71st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Swedish Writer.

Eyvind Johnson is most famous for his novel, The Emigrants, which was published in 1949. The book is about a group of Swedish immigrants who leave their homeland to start a new life in America.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eyvind Johnson ranks 347 out of 7,302. Before him are Maurice Leblanc, Arion, Archilochus, Mikhail Lermontov, J. D. Vance, and Amos Oz. After him are Paul Valéry, Simonides of Ceos, Marguerite Duras, Peter Drucker, Roald Dahl, and Luqman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Eyvind Johnson ranks 19. Before him are Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Frank, Gladwyn Jebb, Dennis Gabor, Spencer Tracy, and Heinrich Müller. After him are Giorgos Seferis, Adlai Stevenson II, Margaret Mitchell, Vasily Chuikov, Urho Kekkonen, and Adolf Dassler. Among people deceased in 1976, Eyvind Johnson ranks 16. Before him are Max Ernst, Jean Gabin, Fritz Lang, Leopold Ružička, André Malraux, and Yonatan Netanyahu. After him are Trofim Lysenko, Man Ray, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Henrik Dam, Jacques Monod, and Benjamin Britten.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Eyvind Johnson ranks 55 out of 1,879. Before him are Raoul Wallenberg (1912), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Haakon VI of Norway (1340), Eric XIV of Sweden (1533), Princess Birgitta of Sweden (1937), and Anders Jonas Ångström (1814). After him are Hilma af Klint (1862), Gideon Sundback (1880), Max von Sydow (1929), Gunnar Nordahl (1921), Harry Martinson (1904), and Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Eyvind Johnson ranks 6. Before him are Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), August Strindberg (1849), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), and Pär Lagerkvist (1891). After him are Harry Martinson (1904), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Henning Mankell (1948), Stieg Larsson (1954), Jan Guillou (1944), and Ellen Key (1849).

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