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Jussi Adler-Olsen

1950 - Today

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Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born 2 August 1950) is a Danish crime fiction writer, a publisher, editor, and entrepreneur, best known for his Department Q series. He made his debut as a nonfiction writer in 1984, and as a fiction writer in 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jussi Adler-Olsen is the 1,147th most popular writer (down from 1,011th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 115th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Danish Writer.

Jussi Adler-Olsen is most famous for his series of novels about a detective named Carl Mørck who works for the Copenhagen police department.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 1,147 out of 7,302. Before him are Elif Shafak, Jean Moréas, Alain-Fournier, Rosalía de Castro, John Dickson Carr, and Andrei Bely. After him are Chiara Lubich, Assia Djebar, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Frans Sammut, Jean-François Marmontel, and Jean Webster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 60. Before him are Marianne Bachmeier, Chantal Akerman, Roza Otunbayeva, Sônia Braga, Bjarne Stroustrup, and Julie Walters. After him are Lakshmi Mittal, Tsugumi Ohba, Shoko Hamada, Christina Onassis, Victoria Principal, and Alan Silvestri.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 136 out of 1,032. Before him are John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Bjarne Stroustrup (1950), Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Louis Hjelmslev (1899), and Martin Andersen Nexø (1869). After him are Giancarlo Esposito (1958), Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Piet Hein (1905), Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), Theophil Hansen (1813), and Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Jussi Adler-Olsen ranks 13. Before him are N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), Sven Hassel (1917), and Martin Andersen Nexø (1869). After him are Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ole Nydahl (1941), Jens Fink-Jensen (1956), and Inger Christensen (1935).

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