Name Lars Ahlin Role Author | Children Per Ahlin | |
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Died March 11, 1997, Stockholm, Sweden Books Natt i marknadstaltet, Din livsfrukt, Tabb med manifestet Awards August Prize, Samfundet De Nios stora pris, Selma Lagerlof Prize, Dobloug Prize - Sweden Nominations Nordic Council's Literature Prize Similar Anita Björk, Olof Bergström, Stig Dagerman | ||
Lars Ahlin öppnar Psykologförbundets kongress 2013
Lars Ahlin (4 April 1915 – 11 March 1997) was an award winning Swedish author and aesthetician.
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Ahlin left school when he was 13 to support his family, although he later attended several folk high schools. When he was 18, he had a mystical experience. He eventually moved to Stockholm, where he wrote two unpublished novels before his first success, Tåbb med manifestet (Tåbb with the Manifesto, 1943). The story, about a young proletarian who rejects the values of communism in favor of a secularized Lutheran theology where man is judged by his deeds, without preconceived notions, set the stage for his subsequent works. Critics have compared Ahlin to Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Thomas Mann. Among the awards he received are the Prize of the Nine in 1960, the Great Novel Prize in 1962, and the Small Nobel Prize in 1966. In 1995, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the 'little Nobel'.