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Erik Axel Karlfeldt (20 July 1864 – 8 April 1931) was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the 1931 Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously after he had been nominated by Nathan Söderblom, member of the Swedish Academy.
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Jul 20, 1998 · Erik Axel Karlfeldt (born July 20, 1864, Folkärna, Sweden—died April 8, 1931, Stockholm) was a 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 it in 1918, at least in part because of his position as secretary to the Swedish ...
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Biographical. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931) was born in Karlbo in the province of Dalekarlia. The name Karlfeldt, which he assumed in 1889, was derived from the name of his father’s farm; his parents were Erik Janson and Anna Stina Jansdotter, both of whom came from old mining families.
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Erik Axel Karlfeldt, ursprungligen Eriksson, född 20 juli 1864 i Karlbo i Folkärna socken i Kopparbergs län, död 8 april 1931 i Engelbrekts församling ' Stockholm, var en svensk poet och författare. Han var ledamot av Svenska Akademien 1904–1931 och postum mottagare av Nobelpriset i litteratur 1931.
Famous poet / Erik Axel Karlfeldt. 1864-1931. Erik Axel Karlfeldt was born in Karlbo in the province of Dalekarlia on July 20, 1864. Karlfeldt attended schools at his birthplace and at Västerås, where he graduated in 1885. He studied at the University of Uppsala and received his degree in 1898.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt was one of several poets who came to prominence in the 1890s in Sweden. Social realism and naturalism, primarily expressed in prose fiction and drama, had been the literary norm in the 1880s.
Presentation Speech by Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, on December 10, 1930. This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature is a native of a part of America which for a long time has had Swedish contacts.
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