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Van Veeteren

fictional character created by Håkan Nesser
Person literary_character Q2366568
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Summary

Van Veeteren is a literary character[1]. He draws 207 Wikipedia views per month (literary character category, ranking #224 of 421).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Håkan Nesser[3]
  • Sex or gender: male[4]
  • Instance of: fictional human[5]
  • Genre: police procedural[6]
  • Performer: Sven Wollter[7]
  • Original broadcaster: NPO 2[8]
  • Start time: September 29, 2007[9]
  • End time: November 3, 2007[10]
  • Number of episodes: 6[11]
  • Present in work: Inspector Van Veeteren mystery[12]
  • Derivative work: Birthmarked[13]
  • Narrative role: protagonist[14]
  • P14750: 620F-604D-AF71-E364-8ED7[15]

Why It Matters

Van Veeteren has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] He is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'fi', 'it', 'nl', 'no', 'sv']
    Derivative work → Birthmarked
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Derivative work: Birthmarked, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1791749476753"
  2. 9w ago · Yirba · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 620F-604D-AF71-E364-8ED7
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47158|batch #47158]]: HAND ID (11)"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Original network → —
    Narrative role → protagonist
    Original broadcaster → NPO 2
    Creator → Håkan Nesser
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007566505005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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