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Pär Lagerkvist

1891 - 1974

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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew. As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of a church. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pär Lagerkvist is the 277th most popular writer (up from 328th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 46th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Writer.

Pär Lagerkvist is most famous for being a Swedish poet and novelist. He is known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s, and is considered to be one of the most important Swedish writers of the 20th century.

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Among writers, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 277 out of 7,302. Before him are Jami, Arthur C. Clarke, Quintilian, Elfriede Jelinek, Peter Handke, and Gao Xingjian. After him are Anna Komnene, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Valmiki, Germaine de Staël, and Isabel Allende.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 12. Before him are Mikhail Bulgakov, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, James Chadwick, Walter Model, and Edith Stein. After him are John Howard Northrop, Walther Bothe, Henry Miller, Rudolf Carnap, Helmuth Weidling, and Otto Dix. Among people deceased in 1974, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 11. Before him are Amin al-Husseini, Juan Perón, Ayub Khan, Patrick Blackett, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and James Chadwick. After him are Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Vittorio De Sica, U Thant, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Baldur von Schirach, and Nick Drake.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 41 out of 1,879. Before him are Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), Agnetha Fältskog (1950), Gustaf Dalén (1869), Charles IX of Sweden (1550), Allvar Gullstrand (1862), and Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (1906). After him are Klas Pontus Arnoldson (1844), Princess Märtha of Sweden (1901), John III of Sweden (1537), Emanuel Swedenborg (1688), Benny Andersson (1946), and Oleg of Novgorod (900).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 5. Before him are Astrid Lindgren (1907), Selma Lagerlöf (1858), August Strindberg (1849), and Tomas Tranströmer (1931). After him are Eyvind Johnson (1900), Harry Martinson (1904), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Henning Mankell (1948), Stieg Larsson (1954), Jan Guillou (1944), and Ellen Key (1849).

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