Karlfeldt

[kahrl-felt]

noun

1. Erik Axel 1864–1931, Swedish poet: Nobel Prize posthumously 1931.

Example Sentences

The first posthumous laureate was the poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt.

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Previously, in 1931, the Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt who had died in March of the same year.

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Popular in his native Sweden but little known elsewhere, Karlfeldt had refused his selection in 1918 because he was a longtime member of the Swedish Nobel Academy.

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