KnowraSwedish literatureLinked fromLinked fromThe 13 pages that link to Swedish literature, each with the reason it gives.All 13Narrower topic 12Compared with 1August StrindbergNarrower topic: Strindberg’s prose and drama reshaped the modern Swedish literary canon.Selma LagerlöfNarrower topic: Lagerlöf became one of its most internationally recognized authors.Gunnar EkelöfNarrower topic: Ekelöf’s experiments both emerged from and altered the course of modern Swedish poetry.Tomas TranströmerNarrower topic: Tranströmer’s poems belong to a national literary tradition while reaching far beyond it.Edith SödergranNarrower topic: Södergran wrote in Swedish while living in Finland.Harry MartinsonNarrower topic: Martinson became one of the defining twentieth-century writers in Sweden.Erik Axel KarlfeldtNarrower topic: Karlfeldt’s verse belongs to a national tradition he helped shape.Eyvind JohnsonNarrower topic: Johnson’s career belongs to a national literary tradition he helped reshape through modernist fiction.Verner von HeidenstamNarrower topic: His writing challenged the dominant realism of late nineteenth-century Swedish literature.Johannes MesseniusNarrower topic: His Swedish-language plays contributed to early modern literary culture.Maria GripeNarrower topic: Gripe became one of the widely translated Swedish authors of children’s fiction.Pär LagerkvistNarrower topic: Lagerkvist’s career belongs to a national literary tradition he helped bring to international attention.