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Verner von Heidenstam

1859 - 1940

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Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940) was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. His poems and prose work are filled with a great joy of life, sometimes imbued with a love of Swedish history and scenery, particularly its physical aspects. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Verner von Heidenstam is the 402nd most popular writer (up from 475th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 72nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swedish Writer.

He is most famous for his epic poem "The Great War."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 402 out of 7,302. Before him are Christopher Marlowe, Giosuè Carducci, Harry Martinson, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, Frank Herbert, and William Wordsworth. After him are Ghalib, Graham Greene, Susan Sontag, Livius Andronicus, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Wilhelm Grimm.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 14. Before him are Svante Arrhenius, John Dewey, Georges Seurat, Alfred Dreyfus, Yuan Shikai, and Billy the Kid. After him are Sholem Aleichem, Alexandre Millerand, Jean Jaurès, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Jerome K. Jerome, and Pierre Janet. Among people deceased in 1940, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 14. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, Carl Bosch, and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse. After him are Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, John Buchan, Peter Behrens, Isaac Babel, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 63 out of 1,879. Before him are Gideon Sundback (1880), Max von Sydow (1929), Gunnar Nordahl (1921), Harry Martinson (1904), Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755), and Björn Borg (1956). After him are Anita Ekberg (1931), Kai Siegbahn (1918), Theodor Svedberg (1884), Astrid of Sweden (1905), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), and Henning Mankell (1948).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Verner von Heidenstam ranks 8. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf (1858), August Strindberg (1849), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), Pär Lagerkvist (1891), Eyvind Johnson (1900), and Harry Martinson (1904). After him are Henning Mankell (1948), Stieg Larsson (1954), Jan Guillou (1944), Ellen Key (1849), Maj Sjöwall (1935), and Olaus Petri (1493).

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