Lars Gustafsson

Lars Erik Einar Gustafsson was a Swedish poet, novelist, philosopher, and scholar. A prolific and internationally recognized writer, he received numerous literary awards over a career spanning six decades, including the Bellman Prize (1990), the Guggenheim Fellowship (1994), the Gerard Bonniers pris (2006), the Goethe Medal (2009), the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (2014), the Thomas Mann Prize (2015), the International Nonino Prize (2016), and the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (2016).

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