August Strindberg

August Strindberg, born in Stockholm on 22 January 1849, the son of a shipping agent and a former servant, studied intermittently at Uppsala, and worked as a tutor, a trainee actor, a journalist and a librarian. A novel of 1879 made him known; a collection of short stories brought him in 1884 a trial for blasphemy, from which he emerged acquitted. The author of more than sixty plays, he also painted seascapes of the archipelago. Married three times, he went through a serious psychological crisis in Paris in the 1890s. He died in Stockholm on 14 May 1912.

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• TheatreMiss JulieFröken JulieAugust Strindberg · 1889LiteraturePublic domain