Sigfrid Siwertz

Sigfrid Siwertz, born in Stockholm on 24 January 1882, the son of a cashier's office manager, took his degree at Uppsala in 1904, then studied in Paris, at the Collège de France. His first books carry the decadence and pessimism of the end of the century; he then came under the influence of Bergson's philosophy, an optimism that the Great War cut short. A poet, playwright and short-story writer, he is best known as a novelist. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1932, a member of its Nobel committee from 1942 to 1963, he died in Stockholm on 26 November 1970.

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