Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (July 20, 1864 - April 8, 1931) was a Swedish poet whose essentially regional, tradition-bound poetry was extremely popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931; he had refused it in 1918.

External links

• Biography at the Nobel e-Museum
• Short biography at nobel-winners.com
• Karlfeldt's collected works and a facsimile of a 1956 edition, both at Project Runeberg
• Pegasos Author's Calendar on Karlfeldt