Lars Ahlin

Lars Ahlin and Gunnel Ahlin , 1960

Lars Ahlin (born April 4, 1915 in Sundsvall , † March 10, 1997 ) was a Swedish writer .

The son of a traveling salesman, who grew up in poor conditions with six siblings, published his works from 1943 (debut: "Tåbb med manifestet") after having worked in a number of other professions. In 1946 he married Gunnel Ahlin.

His works are epic and the protagonists are often outsiders. Ahlin has received numerous major Swedish literary prizes. He can be counted among the large number of Swedish working-class writers who represent an important area in Swedish literature, but is also referred to as a religious mystic . Other Swedish workers' authors include Harry Martinson , Ivar Lo-Johansson , Moa Martinson , Sara Lidman and Vilhelm Moberg . Influenced by French and German novels of the 1920s, he rejected the reader's emotional identification with his fictional characters. The Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson is also named as one of his role models . Occasionally he is compared to Dostoevsky .

The Culture Department of the Swedish town of Sundsvall , in which he had grown up, writes since 1991 every two years with 50,000 Skr doped literary grant from.

His debut novel was published in German under the title Tobb with the Manifesto .

List of works

• Tåbb med manifestet 1943, Roman (German: Tobb with the Manifesto, Hamburg 1948)
• Inga ögon väntar mig 1944, novella
• Min död är min 1945, novel
• Storm kring Ahlin 1945 (literary debate)
• Om 1946, novel
• Jungfrun i det gröna 1947, novel
• Fångnas glädje 1947 (novella)
• Egen spis 1948, novel
• Lekpaus 1948,
• Eld av eld 1949
• Huset har ingen filial 1949, novella
• Ung man med manifest 1951
• Fromma murder 1952, novel
• Kanelbiten 1953, novel
• Stora glömskan 1954, novel
• Kvinna, kvinna 1955, novel
• Natt i marknadstältet (1957), novel
• Gilla gång 1958, novel
• Nattens ögonsten 1958 (illustrated by Håkan Bonds )
• Bark och löv 1961, novel
• Hannibal Segraren 1982, Roman (together with Gunnel Ahlin )
• Tal på Övralid 1983 , 1983
• Sjätte munnen 1985, novel
• Vaktpojkens eld 1986 (novella)
• Din livsfrukt 1987, novel
• 4 pjäser 1990
• De sotarna! De sotarna! 1990, novel
• Det florentinska vildsvinet 1991
• Estetiska Essayer 1994, Essays
• Sjung för de dömda! 1995, essays
• Breviary 1996, essay in letter form
• Landsatt per fallskärm 2002
• Som guld i glöd 2007

Awards

• Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Prize 1944
• Tidningen Vi: s literaturpris 1954
• BMF badge 1955
• De nios stora pris 1960
• Litteraturfrämjandets stora romanpris 1962
• Dobloug Prize 1963
• Olof Högberg badge 1964
• Litteraturfrämjandets stora pris 1966
• Honorary doctorate from Umeå University in 1969
• Signe Ekblad-Eldhs pris 1970
• Kellgren Prize 1982
• Övralidspriset 1983
• Aniara Prize 1983
• Selma Lagerlöf Prize 1988
• August Prize 1990 (for De sotarna! De sotarna! )
• Gerard Bonniers prize 1991
• Ivar Lo-Johanssons personliga pris 1992
• Svenska Academies nordiska pris 1995 (the "small Nobel Prize" of the Svenska Academies )

literature

• Modern Swedish short stories , by Stig Dagerman, Lars Ahlin, and others. a., dtv - Munich 1982, ISBN 3-423-09024-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Lars Ahlin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.bookrags.com/biography/lars-ahlin-dlb/ accessed on September 6, 2012
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