Nordic Authors
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Nordic Authors

Project Runeberg's
continuously updated database of
more than 30,000 authors and other relevant people
from the Nordic countries,
including hundreds of detailed biographies.

Projekt Runebergs
ständigt uppdaterade databas med
fler än 30.000 författare och andra intressanta personer
från de nordiska länderna,
med hundratals detaljerade levnadsbeskrivningar.

Project Runeberg's database of Nordic Authors is easy to use, free of charge and open source. There are several ways to access the database. This is a work in progress. Of the 30,000 names (November 2006), 59% are Swedish, 19% Danish, 7% Norwegian, 4% Estonian, and 2% Finnish. Your active contribution can help to balance this score.

Nordic Authors open source listing

Download the complete listing of more than 30,000 Nordic Authors with names, years of birth and death, nationality, and profession. This is a ISO 8859-1 plain text file named a.lst (click to download, 1.7 megabytes). Please report any errors or missing entries back to the editors@runeberg.org. Please indicate the RCS identification of the version you used.

Search for Nordic Authors

The search function is under reconstruction. The new prototype can be found at runeberg.org/search.pl.
The search is based on Project Runeberg's databases of more than 30,000 Nordic Authors. For each author, we list their names, years of birth and death, (nationality,) and profession.

Biographies of Nordic Authors

For hundreds of Nordic Authors, Project Runeberg provides detailed biographies. You will find links to these biographies when you search for Nordic Authors. The contents of the biographies vary from author to author, and may contain

• details of their lives,
• pictures of the author,
• lists of books they have written,
• links to Project Runeberg's electronic editions of these books,
• links to more information about the author found elsewhere in Project Runeberg,
• links to other Nordic Authors that were related or relevant to them,
• links to thematic entries that in turn link to other authors, books, or information,
• links to book reviews,
• information about literary societies devoted to the author,
• links to more information on other Internet sites.

Link to Nordic Authors

Several hundreds of the Nordic Authors have detailed biographies, as described above. Each biography is a web page of its own, and has a bookmarkable URL. Links to these biographies are found when you search for Nordic Authors. Once you found your favorite authors, you can make a links to them from your own homepage, or save the bookmark. We guarantee that the URLs will not change, and the links will not be broken in the future, thus saving you from a lot of trouble. Furthermore, the URLs are all written in lower case letters (and sometimes digits 0-9) and contain no strange letters, umlauts, or characters that might look bad in print. We encourage you to mention these URLs to your friends and to print them in newspaper articles.

Write about Nordic Authors

If this database does not contain enough information about your favorite Nordic Authors, you are welcome to make a contribution. Write to the editors of Project Runeberg on editors@runeberg.org. Project Runeberg was built by unpaid volunteers like you. Together, we build the Internet's biggest center for Nordic literature!

More Information on the Internet

We encourage the use of Wikipedia for author presentations. If other sites on the Internet contain more information about your favorite Nordic Authors, we intend to keep up-to-date links from our biographies to these sites. We welcome your input. Write to the editors@runeberg.org.

Literary societies devoted to Nordic Authors

In the mid 1990s Project Runeberg used to offer free web space for literary societies, but this offer is no longer open. You can still see some old examples of this in our Tema section.
I mitten av 1990-talet erbjöd Projekt Runeberg gratis utrymme för webbpresentationer av litterära sällskap. Detta erbjudande är inte längre öppet. I vår temasektion finns några äldre exempel på detta.

Nordic Authors in Your Pocket

It is now long since our Palm Pilot format version of the Nordic Authors database was updated. If you have a 3com Palm Pilot, you can bring Nordic Authors with you wherever you go, by downloading nordauth.pdb. This 260+ kbyte compressed Pilot/Aportis Doc format version of our database contains the names of more than 12,000 famous Nordic people in a compact and easy to read format, complete with a legend:

Aapeli, (Simo Puupponen) (1915-1967) fi, writer
Aare, Leif (1933-) se, musician
Aarestrup, Emil (1800-1856) * dk, poet
Aarsleff, Carl (1852-1918) dk, sculptor
Aasen, IVAR Andreas (1813-1896) * no, linguist, poet

Read more about Project Runeberg's Pilot editions.

Rationale

Books are protected by copyright during the lifetime of the author and then for 70 more years (life + 70). After that, the books enter the Public Domain, which makes them available to Project Runeberg. Books by authors who died in 1935 entered the Public Domain on January 1st, 2006. Learn more about copyright.

To find out who died when, you can search for Nordic Authors. This was the original purpose behind our database of Nordic Authors.

If you have any questions, or if you would like to help us extend or improve these databases, you are welcome to write to the editors@runeberg.org.

Innehåll / Indhold / Table of Contents

Contents Overview

Project Runeberg's author database contains 31679 authors, out of which 7647 have presentations of varying lengths.

A   Aabel, Per -- Azimi, Maryam (420 authors)
B   Baadsgaard, Anna -- Bügler, Bror (825 authors)
C   Cacace, Mariangela Johansen -- Czapek, Joseph (210 authors)
D   Daa, Ludvig Kristensen -- Dürrfeld, Peter (216 authors)
E   Eberlin, Erik C. -- Eysteinn Ásgrimsson (256 authors)
F   Faber, Else -- Füchsel, Franz (252 authors)
G   Gaarder, Jostein -- Güntelberg, Aldo Friedrich Wilhelm Roller (320 authors)
H   Haag, Erik -- Hüttner, Peter (724 authors)
I   Ibsen, Aage -- Iversen, Kjeld (40 authors)
J   Jac, F. P. -- Jürgensen, Jürgen (259 authors)
K   Kaae, Harry -- Küntzel, Hans (377 authors)
L   L'Estrange, Charles James -- Lützow, Jørgen (515 authors)
M   Macdonald, Betty -- Mützelburg, Adolf (396 authors)
N   Nag, Martin -- Nørretranders, Tor (284 authors)
O   O'Flanagan, Sheila -- Oxenvad, Niels (92 authors)
P   Paasche, Fredrik -- Pétursson, Hallgrímur (224 authors)
Q   Querini, Pietro -- Qvist, Hans (7 authors)
R   Raab, Axel Arvid -- Rützebeck, Holger (372 authors)
S   Saabye, Svend -- Süskind, Patrick (836 authors)
T   Taarup, Martin -- Tøxen, Manasse (309 authors)
U   Uggla, Magnus -- Uurto, Iris (44 authors)
V   Vaa, Dyre -- Vørsel, Niels (137 authors)
W   Waage, Erik -- Wøller, Johan (383 authors)
X   Xingjian, Gao
Y   Ya Ding -- Yutang, Lin (14 authors)
Z   Zacke, Alvar -- Zytphen-Adeler, Ferd. (40 authors)
Ä   Äikiä, Armas
Å   Åberg, Berit -- Åström, Wilhelm (23 authors)
Æ   Ægidius, Hans Chr. -- Æreboe, Rasmus (2 authors)
É   Énault, Louis
Ö   Öberg, Helena -- Östman, Nan Inger (27 authors)
Ø   Øberg, Edith -- Øygarden, Bjørg (40 authors)