Pär Lagerkvist
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1951for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind
- Citizenship
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Sweden - Languages
- Swedish
- date of birth
- 5/23/1891
- place of birth
- Växjö
- date of death
- 7/11/1974
- place of death
- Danderyd
- Lived
- 83 years
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- position held
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- seat 8 of the Swedish Academy
- end time: 7/11/1974
- start time: 12/20/1940
- seat 8 of the Swedish Academy
- educated at
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- Uppsala University
- start time: 1911
- Uppsala University
- member of
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- Swedish Academy
- field of work
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- literature
- occupation
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- playwright
- essayist
- autobiographer
- writer
- screenwriter
- poet