August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg (, Swedish: [ˈǒːɡɵst ˈstrɪ̂nːdbærj] (listen); 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of August Strindberg has received more than 1,216,381 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). August Strindberg is the 131st most popular writer (down from 128th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 15th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swedish Writer.

August Strindberg is most famous for his writing. He was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter.