biography
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Ekelöf, (Bengt) Gunnar
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pronunciation:
[ekeloef]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1907–68)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was considered one of the most significant Swedish poets of the 20th-c. Much influenced by the French Symbolists, he published his first book of poetry, Sent på jorden (trans Late Arrival on Earth), in 1932. En Mölna-elegi (1960, A Mölna Elegy) was translated into English, as were his Selected poems (1966) and Guide to the Underworld (1967). |
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