Pär Lagerkvist
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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Lagerkvist in 1951
The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel)
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The Dwarf is a 1944 novel by Pär Lagerkvist. It is considered his most important and artistically innovative novel. It was translated into English by Alexandra Dick in 1945.
Pär Lagerkvist
…was elected a member of the Swedish Academy, succeeding Verner von Heidenstam on chair 8 in December the same year. Lagerkvist's 1944 novel Dvärgen (The Dwarf), a searching, ironic tale about evil, was the first to bring him positive international attention outside of the Nordic countries. The work was followed…
First English-language edition (publ. L.B. Fischer)