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Pär Lagerkvist

Died in 1974

Pär Lagerkvist was born in Växjö on 23 May 1891, the youngest of the seven children of a railway foreman, in a Pietist home where the Bible and the psalter were the only books; as a teenager he saw this faith shaken by Darwinism and socialism. After two months in Paris in 1913, he published a programme of literary renewal that took modern painting as its model. He lived for a long time in Denmark, France and Italy, criticised Nazism very early, entered the Swedish Academy in 1940 and received the Nobel Prize in 1951. He died on 11 July 1974.

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