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Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)

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Pär Lagerkvist

Swedish writer (1891-1974)

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Nobel Prize in Literature

Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…
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