Per Hallström

Per Hallström was born in Stockholm on 29 September 1866, the son of a cashier. He graduated as an engineer from the Polytechnic School in 1886 and worked as a chemist in Philadelphia, in the United States, returning in 1890, before joining the telegraph administration as an amanuensis from 1891 to 1897. He published his first verse in 1891. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1908, he was its permanent secretary from 1931 to 1941 and chaired its Nobel committee from 1922 to 1946. The translator of all of Shakespeare's plays, he died in Nacka on 18 February 1960.

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• Short storiesThanatosPer Hallström · 1900not translated into EnglishLiterature