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Denmark
2 authors in the ranking·6 rated books·4 books set here
The reader ranking includes the Danish crime writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, and this page also lists the books whose story is set in Denmark. William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, written between 1599 and 1601, takes place at Elsinore, that is, Kronborg Castle in the Danish town of Helsingør. Lois Lowry’s “Number the Stars” (1989), which won the Newbery Medal in 1990, follows a Copenhagen girl in 1943 during the rescue of the Danish Jews.
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Authors 2
- Jussi Adler-Olsen4 ranked booksThe Purity of Vengeance7.8
- Zogarth2 ranked booksThe Primal Hunter 138.1
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An author's country is their citizenship in Wikidata or, where none is recorded, the country they were born in; a story's setting comes from Wikidata too. Obvious errors and gaps are corrected by hand. Authors are ordered by the number of reader ratings. Country shapes: Natural Earth.