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Gunnar Ekelöf

1907 - 1968

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Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf (15 September 1907 – 16 March 1968) was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gunnar Ekelöf is the 3,192nd most popular writer (down from 3,133rd in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 436th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Swedish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 3,192 out of 7,302. Before him are Theodor Kallifatides, Bâkî, Panteleimon Kulish, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Hamnet Shakespeare, and Amos Tutuola. After him are Phylarchus, Kosta Khetagurov, Yakov Perelman, Géza Gárdonyi, Vincent Voiture, and Henry Darger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 176. Before him are Raymond Braine, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Roman Rudenko, Mariam Aslamazian, Ursula Kuczynski, and Phil Edwards. After him are Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança, István Bárány, Miguel Torga, Sergei Shtemenko, Géza von Radványi, and Edwige Feuillère. Among people deceased in 1968, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 109. Before him are Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, Gholamreza Takhti, Sigfried Giedion, Herbert Read, Chana Orloff, and Maurice Larrouy. After him are Armando Castellazzi, Lina Stern, Ludowika Jakobsson, Jeanne Demessieux, Robert Z. Leonard, and Anthony Asquith.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 478 out of 1,879. Before him are Magnus, Duke of Östergötland (1542), Sonja Edström (1930), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Nils Edén (1871), and Richard Bergh (1858). After him are Gideon Ståhlberg (1908), Ivan Eklind (1905), Sven Davidson (1928), Ingvar Wixell (1931), Tommy Körberg (1948), and Jeanna Bauck (1840).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Gunnar Ekelöf ranks 39. Before him are Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Gunilla Bergström (1942), Victoria Benedictsson (1850), Kerstin Ekman (1933), and Marianne Fredriksson (1927). After him are Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Viktor Rydberg (1828), Liza Marklund (1962), Torgny Lindgren (1938), Åsa Larsson (1966), and Lina Sandell (1832).

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