Per-Olof Sundman

Per Olof Sundman was born in Vaxholm on 4 September 1922 and grew up in Stockholm; he lost his father at the age of two. In 1949 he settled in Jämtland, where he ran a farm, forests and a small tourist hotel. He published his first book at thirty-five and made his name with a narrative style that describes actions without entering minds, which critics have compared to Hemingway. Elected to Parliament for the Centre Party, he sat there from 1969 to 1979, and joined the Swedish Academy in 1975. He died in Stockholm on 9 October 1992, aged seventy.

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• NovelThe Flight of the EagleIngenjör Andrées luftfärdPer-Olof Sundman · 1967Literature