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The group includes about 265,000 people, comprising 5.10% of the population of mainland Finland, or 5.50% [29] if the 26,000 inhabitants of Åland are included (there are also about 60,000 Swedish-speaking Finns currently resident in Sweden).
Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800), feminist writer, poet, translator, editor, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden; Per Ahlmark (1939-2018), writer and former leader of the Liberal People's Party; Kurt Almqvist (1912–2001), poet, academic and spiritual figure; August Bernhard Andersson (1877–1961) Dan Andersson ...
The queen decided to make him an experiment in upbringing; she was interested in science and had founded a science academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, where, among other topics, the origin of man and civilisation was discussed, such as the nature of "savages", the noble savage and the natural human, and in Badin, she saw an opportunity to test the theories ...
Swedish agriculture had a system with labourers called statare, who were paid in kind only, with product and housing, comparable with the Anglo-Saxon truck system. Among the few people with this background who made an intellectual career were the writers Ivar Lo-Johansson, Moa Martinson and Jan Fridegård. Their works were important to the ...
The Lyrical Poems of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, 1918; Sweden’s Laureate: Selected Poems of Verner Von Heidenstam, 1919; The Charles Men, Pts. 1-2, historical fiction, 1920; Modern Swedish masterpieces, short stories, 1923; The Dragon and the Foreign Devils, non-fiction, 1928; Martin Birck’s Youth, novel, 1930; Short Stories of Hjalmar ...
From the summer of 1920 on, she abandoned her poetry until August 1922; during the autumn and winter she wrote her final poems, stimulated by the review Ultra; the short-lived review, started by Elmer Diktonius, Hagar Olsson and other young writers, was the first publication in Finland to embrace literary modernism, and it hailed Edith as a ...
The fame of Atterbom (1790–1855) comes from his flower poetry: Lycksalighetens ö ("Island of Bliss"), 1824–1827, and a collection of poetry called Blommorna. [ 8 ] Esaias Tegnér (1782–1846) has been described as the first modern Swedish man, in the sense that very much is known about both his life and his person, and that he left an ...
Bukowski's birthplace at Aktienstrasse, Andernach Charles Bukowski was born Heinrich Karl Bukowski in Andernach, Prussia, Weimar Germany.His father was Heinrich (Henry) Bukowski, an American of German descent who had served in the U.S. army of occupation after World War I and had remained in Germany after his army service.