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Torgny Lindgren

1938 - 2017

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Gustav Torgny Lindgren (16 June 1938 – 16 March 2017) was a Swedish writer. Lindgren was the son of Andreas Lindgren and Helga Björk. He studied in Umeå to become a teacher and worked as a teacher until the middle of the 1970s. For several years he was active as a local politician for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Torgny Lindgren is the 3,582nd most popular writer (up from 3,804th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 551st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Swedish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Torgny Lindgren ranks 3,582 out of 7,302Before him are Thomas Corneille, Musine Kokalari, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dorothea Viehmann, E. W. Hornung, and Antoine de la Sale. After him are Teofilo Folengo, Ozaki Kōyō, Titus Quinctius Atta, Augusto Monterroso, Arthur Waley, and Giovanni Pontano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Torgny Lindgren ranks 282Before him are Moshe Safdie, Dennis Oppenheim, Enzo G. Castellari, Daevid Allen, Anatoly Marchenko, and Shashi Kapoor. After him are Lindsay Kemp, Betty Cuthbert, Ants Antson, Günter Brus, Aquilino Bocos Merino, and Mirko Kovač. Among people deceased in 2017, Torgny Lindgren ranks 251Before him are Max Gallo, Hilarion Capucci, Ludvig Faddeev, Christine Keeler, Shashi Kapoor, and Jan Tříska. After him are Betty Cuthbert, Brunhilde Pomsel, Armando Calderón Sol, Georgy Grechko, Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Attilio Nicora.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Torgny Lindgren ranks 530 out of 1,879Before him are Felix Hamrin (1875), Sven-Bertil Taube (1934), Martin Dahlin (1968), Fanny Brate (1861), Gösta Lilliehöök (1884), and Gunnar Eriksson (1921). After him are Charles De Geer (1720), Carl-Gustaf Rossby (1898), Erik Lundqvist (1908), Rickard Sandler (1884), Karl Staaff (1860), and Anders Jahan Retzius (1742).

Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Torgny Lindgren ranks 43Before him are Kerstin Ekman (1933), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Gunnar Ekelöf (1907), Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783), Viktor Rydberg (1828), and Liza Marklund (1962). After him are Åsa Larsson (1966), Lina Sandell (1832), Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht (1718), Hjalmar Bergman (1883), Moa Martinson (1890), and Gustaf Fröding (1860).