Poets

Laureate - 1977

Artur Lundkvist

Sweden

Biography

Artur Lundkvist (Oderljunga, Sweden, 3 March 1096 – Stokcholm, 10 July 1991) – eminent Swedish lyricist, short story writer and editor; president of the Nobel Prize Committee. He wrote many novels, essay books, travelogues and authobiographic prose. Works: books of poetry: Embers (1928), Naked Life(1929), The Blue Man (1932); Agadir (1961); Elegies to Pablo Neruda (1975); lyrical prose books: Malinga (1952); Mirror for Day and Night (1953).