Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman was born on 5 October 1923 in Älvkarleby, in northern Uppland, to a working-class father and a telephonist mother who never lived together, and was raised by his paternal grandparents before joining his father in Stockholm. In 1940 his grandfather was killed by a mentally ill man and his grandmother died shortly after. A libertarian trade-union activist, he joined the newspaper Arbetaren at eighteen. From 1945 to 1949 he published novels, stories and plays with great success, then stopped writing. He took his own life at Enebyberg on 4 November 1954, aged thirty-one.

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• EssayGerman AutumnTysk höstStig Dagerman · 1947LiteraturePublic domain