Erik Lindegren

Erik Lindegren was born in Luleå, in northern Sweden, on 5 August 1910, the son of an engineer. He passed his school-leaving exam in Östersund in 1930, studied for a time in Stockholm, then lived on translation and criticism; he published his first book in 1935. In 1937, a stay with artists in Karelia brought him into contact with European modernism. With Karl Vennberg, his brother-in-law, he was one of the leading figures of the generation of the forties. A translator of Eliot, Rilke, Saint-John Perse, Claudel and Faulkner, and author of opera libretti, he entered the Swedish Academy in 1962 and died in Stockholm on 31 May 1968.

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• Poetrymannen utan vägErik Lindegren · 1942not translated into EnglishLiterature