Lars Ahlin

Lars Ahlin was born in Sundsvall on 4 April 1915, the youngest of seven children of a commercial traveller. The family moved to Stockholm when he was three, and his mother left the home for a younger man: the children had to fend for themselves. He left school at thirteen, later attended folk high schools and tried about ten trades. Married in 1946 to Gunnel Hellman, herself a writer, he received, among other honours, the Prize of the Nine in 1960 and the August Prize in 1990, and died in Stockholm on 10 March 1997.

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• NovelOmLars Ahlin · 1946not translated into EnglishLiterature