Oscar Ivar Levertin

Oscar Levertin, born in Norrköping on 17 July 1862 into a Jewish family, took a doctorate in literary history at Uppsala University in 1889 and at first followed naturalism in his short stories. From 1899 he held the first chair of literary history at Stockholm University, and from 1897, at Svenska Dagbladet, he was the dominant critical voice of his country. In 1901 he contested the award of the first Nobel Prize in Literature to Sully Prudhomme, regarding Tolstoy as the natural laureate. He died suddenly in Stockholm in September 1906, aged forty-four.

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• PoetryLegender och visorOscar Ivar Levertin · 1891not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain