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Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931) 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.

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