Per Olov Enquist

Per Olov Enquist

Born September 23, 1934· Sjön, Hjoggböle, Bureå, Västerbotten, Sweden

† Died April 25, 2020

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Emerging from a modest village in Västerbotten, he pursued literary history at Uppsala University before launching a career that spanned journalism, playwriting and novel-writing. Early success arrived with a 1968 Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Legionnaires, a novel exposing Sweden’s post-war deportations, and his reputation grew through historically rooted works such as Kapten Nemos bibl…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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