Gustaf Hellström

Gustaf Hellström was born in Kristianstad, in Scania, on 28 August 1882. He studied at Lund, where he frequented the bohemian and radical circle of Bengt Lidforss, then moved to Stockholm. A correspondent of Dagens Nyheter from 1907, he lived in London, Paris and New York and settled in Sweden only in the mid-1930s; he sent reports on the Great War from France and the United States, then from Germany on Hitler's first years. President of the Swedish PEN club, elected to the Swedish Academy in 1942 and honorary doctor of Uppsala, he died in Stockholm on 27 February 1953.

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• NovelLacemaker Lekholm Has an IdeaSnörmakare Lekholm får en idéGustaf Hellström · 1927LiteraturePublic domain