Erik A. Karlfeldt

awards:

  • Nobel Prize for Literature(1931)

reference info

bio notes:
born: 7/20/1864
died: 4/8/1931
born as: Erik Axel Karlfeldt
nationality: Sweden

Swedish poet whose essentially regional, tradition-bound poetry was extremely popular and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused the Nobel in 1918. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

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