Portrait of Verner von Heidenstam Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (July 6, 1859 – May 20, 1940) was a Swedish poet and novellist, a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. Most of his works are passionate depictions of Swedish character, life and traditions, often from a clearly patriotic point of view. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 775 à 599 pixelsFull resolution (1120 à 866 pixel, file size: 151 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Painting available at Ãstergötlands länsmuseum, Linköping, Sweden Faithful reproductions of two-dimensional original works cannot attract copyright in the U.S. according to...
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Nobel Prize in Literature medal. ...
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The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 on the personal initiative of King Gustav III The Swedish Academy in Stockholm The Swedish Academy or Svenska Akademien, founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden. ...
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He was born in Olshammar to a noble family. He studied paintings in the Academy of Stockholm, but soon left to travel longly in Europe, Africa and Eastern countries. His work Vallfart och vandringsår (Pilgrimage: the Wander Years, 1888) is a collection of poems inspired by his experiences in the Eastern travels, and marks an abandon of naturalism then dominant in Swedish literature. His love for beauty is showed also by the allogeorical novel Hans Alienus (1892). Dikter ("Poems", 1895) and Karolinerna (The Charles Men, 2 vols., 1897-1898), an historical novel, shows a strong nationalistic passion. The two volumes of Folkunga Trädet (The Tree of the Folkungs, 1905-07) are the inspired, epic story of a clan of Swede chieftains in the Middle Ages. His poetical collection Nya Dikter, published in 1915, deals with phylosophical themes, mainly concerning the elevation of man to a better humanity from solitude. He died at his home Övralid in 1940. Ãvralid Ãvarlid, north of Motala in Ãstergötland, Sweden. ...
Works
- Från Col di Tenda till Blocksberg (1888)
- Vallfart och vandringsår (1888)
- Renässans (1889)
- Endymion (1889, novel)
- Hans Alienus (1892)
- Dykter (1895)
- Karolinerna (The Charles Men, 1897-98, novel)
- Sankt Göran och draken (1900)
- Heliga Birgittas pilgrimsfärd (Saint Bridget's Pilgrimage, 1901)
- Ett folk (1902)
- Skogen susar (The Forest Whispers, 1904)
- Folkunga Trädet (The Tree of the Folkungs, 2 volumes, 1905-1907)
- Svenskarna och deras hövdingar (1910, historical lectures)
- Nya Dikter (1915).
Year 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday[1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
See also This is a list of Swedish language novelists, poets and other writers. ...
This is a list of poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in Swedish: Evert Taube (1890-1976) Karin Boye (1900-1941) Elmer Diktonius (1896-1961) Nils Ferlin (1898-1961) Gustaf Fröding (1860-1911) Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940) Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931) Oscar Levertin (1862...
External links - Verner von Heidenstam - at Projekt Runeberg
- Works by Verner von Heidenstam at Project Gutenberg
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- http://awardt.skynetask.com/Heidenstam2/
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