1. Ulrika Widström (1764)

Swedish Poet

Swedish translator and poet who is best known for a 1799 work entitled Erotiska sanger (Erotic Songs).

2. Josefina Wettergrund (Unknow)

Swedish Poet

Josefina Leontina Amanda Wettergrund née Lundberg pseudonym Lea and Mrs Wettergrund was a Swedish writer and poet.

3. Östen Sjöstrand (1925)

Swedish Poet

'Östen Sjöstrand was a Swedish poet writer and translator. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1975.

4. Bengt Lidner (1757)

Swedish Poet

Bengt Lidner was a Swedish poet born in Gothenburg. His opera Medea was translated to English and played in England during his lifetime but wasn't played in Sweden until 2004....

5. Nils Lorens Sjöberg (1754)

Swedish Poet

Nils Lorens Sjöberg was a Swedish officer and poet. He was the first holder of seat 18 at the Swedish Academy from 1787 to 1822. Sjöberg was born in Jönköping...

6. Anders Österling (1884)

Swedish Poet

Anders Österling was a Swedish poet and writer. In 1919 he was elected as a member of the Swedish Academy when he was 35 years old the youngest ever at...

7. Karl Fredrik Dahlgren (1791)

Swedish Poet

Karl Fredrik Dahlgren Swedish poet was born at Stensbruk in Östergötland on 20 June 1791. At a time when literary partisanship ran high in Sweden and the writers divided themselves...

8. Albert Ulrik Bååth (1853)

Swedish Poet

Albert Ulrik Bååth was a Swedish poet and author often seen as A. U. Bååth. He was a senior lecturer in Old Norse literature at Göteborgs högskola from 1881 until...

9. Karl Vennberg (1910)

Swedish Poet

Karl Vennberg was a Swedish poet writer and translator. Born in Blädinge Alvesta Municipality Kronoberg County as the son of a farmer Vennberg studied at Lund University and in Stockholm...

10. Hedvig Löfwenskiöld (Unknow)

Swedish Poet

Hedvig Apollonia Löfwenskiöld as married Lillienanckar was a Swedish writer lady of letters and poet. She was the daughter of the official and poet Henrik Anders Löfvenskiöld and the niece...

11. Hedvig Sirenia (Unknow)

Swedish Poet

Hedvig Sirenia as married Schulzen or Schultz was a Swedish poet and translator known simply as Sirenia. She was a member of the Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg. She...

12. Gunno Dahlstierna (1661)

Swedish Poet

Gunno Dahlstierna Swedish poet

13. Ragnar Jändel (1895)

Swedish Poet

Ragnar Jändel was a Swedish poet and author. He was of proletarian origin and one of the Swedish labor poets. His autobiographical writing Childhood paints a bleak picture of working-class...

14. Emil Kléen (1868)

Swedish Poet

Not to be confused with the Swedish physician and writer Emil Kleen see Emil Kleen. Johan Emil Kléen was a Swedish journalist and poet. He was an admirer and protegé...

15. Emil von Qvanten (1827)

Swedish Poet

Emil von Qvanten was a Finnish-Swedish poet librarian publisher and politician. Qvanten went into exile in Stockholm Sweden whence he produced anonymous political propaganda which was smuggled into Finland. In...

16. Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864)

Swedish Poet

Erik Axel Karlfeldt was a Swedish poet whose highly symbolist poetry masquerading as regionalism was popular and won him the Nobel Prize in Literature posthumously in 1931. It has been...

17. Erik Johan Stagnelius (1793)

Swedish Poet

Erik Johan Stagnelius was born October 14 1793 in Gärdslösa on the island Öland Sweden and died on April 3 1823 in Stockholm. He was a Romantic poet and playwright....

18. Frans Michael Franzén (1772)

Swedish Poet

s Michael Franzén was a Swedish and Finnish poet.

19. Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790)

Swedish Poet

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was a Swedish romantic poet and a member of the Swedish Academy.

20. Julia Nyberg (1784)

Swedish Poet

Julia Kristina Nyberg was a Swedish poet and songwriter. Nyberg grew up as the adoptive daughter of a mill owner named Adlerwald in the parish of Skultuna in Västmanland County....

21. Arvid August Afzelius (1785)

Swedish Poet

Arvid August Afzelius was a Swedish pastor poet historian and mythologist. From 1828 till his death he was parish priest of Enköping.

22. Aase Berg (1967)

Swedish Poet

Aase Berg is a Swedish poet and critic. Aase Berg was among the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group in 1986 and published an early book on their publishing...