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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pär Lagerkvist has received more than 233,790 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Pär Lagerkvist is the 328th most popular writer (up from 359th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 51st 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

Among writers, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 328 out of 7,302. Before him are Archilochus, Friedrich Schlegel, J. M. Coetzee, France Prešeren, Peter Drucker, and Ève Curie. After him are André Malraux, Théophile Gautier, Coen brothers, William Wordsworth, Mikhail Sholokhov, and David Woodard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 13. Before him are Walter Model, Max Ernst, Nelly Sachs, Edith Stein, James Chadwick, and John Howard Northrop. After him are Henry Miller, Otto Dix, Rudolf Carnap, Rafael Trujillo, Genrikh Yagoda, and Helmuth Weidling. Among people deceased in 1974, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 10. Before him are Juan Perón, Georges Pompidou, Amin al-Husseini, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, James Chadwick, and Vittorio De Sica. After him are U Thant, Baldur von Schirach, Duke Ellington, Virginia Apgar, Imre Lakatos, and Julius Evola.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 46 out of 1,879. Before him are Agnetha Fältskog (1950), Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688), Charles XI of Sweden (1655), Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), Manne Siegbahn (1886), and Allvar Gullstrand (1862). After him are Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755), Gunnar Myrdal (1898), Carl Larsson (1853), Eric XIV of Sweden (1533), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), and Benny Andersson (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Sweden

Among writers born in Sweden, Pär Lagerkvist ranks 5. Before him are Selma Lagerlöf (1858), Astrid Lindgren (1907), August Strindberg (1849), and Tomas Tranströmer (1931). After him are Henning Mankell (1948), Eyvind Johnson (1900), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), Harry Martinson (1904), Stieg Larsson (1954), Ellen Key (1849), and Per Olov Enquist (1934).

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