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Pär Lagerkvist


Born
in Växjö, Småland, Sweden
May 23, 1891

Died
July 11, 1974

Website

Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction


Lagerkvist was born in 1891 in southern Sweden. In 1910 he went to Uppsala as a student and in 1913 he left for Paris, where he was exposed to the work of Pablo Picasso. He studied Middle Age Art, as well as Indian and Chinese literature, to prepare himself for becoming a poet. His first collection of poetry was published in 1916. In 1940 Lagerkvist was chosen as one of the "aderton" (the eighteen) of the Swedish Academy.

Lagerkvist wrote poetry, novels, plays, short stories and essays. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951 "for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind." ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 21,785 ratings · 1,951 reviews · 170 distinct works • Similar authors
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3.69 avg rating — 7,941 ratings — published 1944 — 6 editions
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Barabbas
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3.87 avg rating — 6,255 ratings — published 1946 — 17 editions
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The Sibyl
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4.02 avg rating — 1,820 ratings — published 1956 — 51 editions
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Bödeln
3.53 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — 26 editions
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Gäst hos verkligheten
3.40 avg rating — 680 ratings — published 1925 — 22 editions
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The Death of Ahasuerus
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3.56 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 1960 — 25 editions
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Pilgrim at Sea
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3.82 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 1962 — 25 editions
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Onda sagor
3.80 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 1924 — 8 editions
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4.07 avg rating — 304 ratings — published 1920 — 19 editions
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Herod and Mariamne
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Series by Pär Lagerkvist

The Sibyl The Death of Ahasuerus Pilgrim at Sea The Holy Land
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Quotes by Pär Lagerkvist  (?)
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“Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl
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“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Sibyl
tags: childhood, growth, maturity
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“-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, Barabbas
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