Pär Lagerkvist

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 ? 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951.

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Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. Among his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as the man who was freed instead of Jesus, Barabbas, and the wandering Jew Ahasuerus. As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of the church.

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