Karl Vennberg

Karl Vennberg was born on 11 April 1910 in Blädinge, in Småland, into a pious family of small farmers who wanted him to become a pastor. He gave up those studies, went through the University of Lund and then Stockholm, and was, with Erik Lindegren, the leading figure of the Swedish poetic movement of the forties. He introduced Kafka to Sweden by translating him, ran the culture section of Aftonbladet from 1957 to 1975 and was, in the seventies, the literary stylist of the Bible translation commission. He died in Spånga on 12 May 1995.

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• PoetryTideräkningKarl Vennberg · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature