Lars Ahlin

Lars Ahlin (born April 4, 1915, Sundsvall, Swed.—died March 11, 1997, Stockholm) was an influential Swedish novelist of the mid-20th century. Ahlin’s family struggled financially, and he left school at age 13 to work, although he later attended several folk high schools. He eventually settled in Stockholm, where he began his career as a writer. The early novel Tåbb med manifestet (1943; “Tåbb with the Manifesto”) presents many of the central ideas of Ahlin’s writings....