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Facts

Born July 20, 1864 • Sweden
Died April 8, 1931 (aged 66) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1931)
Movement / Style regionalism

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Erik Axel Karlfeldt, detail of an oil painting by Carl Larsson, 1918; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden.
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