Dan Andersson

Dan Andersson, born in 1888 in Skattlösberg, in Dalarna, the son of a village schoolteacher, grew up poor and began working early in the forest, as a charcoal burner, lumberjack and timber floater. At fourteen, he was sent to relatives in Minnesota to see whether the family could emigrate; he returned after eight months. After attending the folk high school at Brunnsvik, he worked as a journalist in 1917 and 1918 at the newspaper Ny Tid, in Gothenburg, married Olga Turesson in 1918 and translated Kipling and Baudelaire. He died of accidental poisoning in a Stockholm hotel on 16 September 1920, aged thirty-two.

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• PoetrySvarta balladerDan Andersson · 1917not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain