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With this image, we celebrate Icelandic writer Halldór Kiljan Laxness, the winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Norvegian Knut Hamsun was always seen as a great writer. In his novels, he introduced and mastered stream of consciousness and monologue and influenced a wide array of writers, from Mann to Kafka or Gorky to Hemingway. In 1920, Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Norvegian Knut Hamsun was always seen as a great writer. In Shis novels, he introduced and mastered stream of consciousness and monologue and influenced a wide array of writers, from Mann to Kafka or Gorky to Hemingway. His support to the Nazi regime casts a dark shadow over his brilliant opus.

Here, we show August Strindberg, a colossal figure of literature and theater. His novel The Red Room is the first modern novel of Swedish literature. Strindberg wrote over sixty theater plays.He was interested in everything, science and occult, theosophy and photography, philosophy and alchemy. Even his expressionistic paintings are valued and appreciated. Many great artists quoted Strindberg as an important influence on them: Maxim Gorky, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Ingmar Bergman, Borges! His most famous plays are Master Olof, Miss Julie, and The Father.

Here, we show August Strindberg, a colossal figure of literature and theater. His novel The Red Room is the first modern novel of Swedish literature. Strindberg wrote over sixty theater plays.He was interested in everything, science and occult, theosophy and photography, philosophy and alchemy. Even his expressionistic paintings are valued and appreciated. Many great artists quoted Strindberg as an important influence on them: Maxim Gorky, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill, Ingmar Bergman, Borges! His most famous plays are Master Olof, Miss Julie, and The Father.

Count Eric Stenbock was a Swedish noble who was born in Estonia and lived in England. He explored the fantasy genre, the macabre world of darkness and death.

Count Eric Stenbock was a Swedish noble who was born in Estonia and lived in England. He explored the fantasy genre, the macabre world of darkness and death.

Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf started as a surrealist, moved to romanticism, but above all - he was always a profound modernist!

Harry Martinson is often considered the most remarkable figure of Swedish literature after August Strindberg. In 1974, together with writer Eyvind Johnson, he won a joint Nobel Prize in Literature. For him, this would have fatal consequences.

Norwegian playwright and theater director Henrik Ibsen wrote in Danish, the common language of Denmark and Norway. Through his plays like Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Ibsen became one of the founders of modernism in theater. After William Shakespeare, he is the most performed theatrical writer in the world.

Johan Nordahl Brun Grieg was a Norwegian poet, writer, journalist, and controversial figure who died on a WWII bombing mission.