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Born September 23, 1934 • Sweden
Died April 25, 2020 (aged 85) • Sweden • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Notable Works “Ett annat liv” • “Färdvägen” • “Hess” • “Kristallögat” • “Musikanternas uttåg” • “The Legionnaires” • “The Royal Physician’s Visit” • “The Night of the Tribades”

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Vilhelm Moberg
Swedish author
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1935.
Aleksey Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy
Soviet writer
Sigfrid Siwertz
Swedish author
August Strindberg
August Strindberg
Swedish dramatist
Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman
Swedish author
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Hjalmar Erik Fredrik Söderberg
Swedish author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
French writer
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
French author
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre
French philosopher and author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Gabriele D’Annunzio
Italian writer and political leader
Tibor Déry
Hungarian writer
Alessandro Manzoni, oil painting by Francesco Hayez; in the Brera Gallery, Milan.
Alessandro Manzoni
Italian author
Rolland
Romain Rolland
French writer
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author