Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt, born Erik Axel Eriksson on 20 July 1864 at the Tolvmansgården farm, in the parish of Folkärna, in Dalarna, the son of peasants, took the name Karlfeldt in 1889 to distance himself from a father convicted in 1885 of forgery. He paid for his studies at Uppsala by giving lessons, taught at Djursholm and Molkom, was employed at the Royal Library and then became librarian of the Academy of Agriculture. A member of the Swedish Academy in 1904, its permanent secretary from 1913, he first refused the Nobel Prize and received it posthumously; he died in Stockholm on 8 April 1931.

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• PoetryFridolins visor och andra dikterErik Axel Karlfeldt · 1898LiteraturePublic domain