Verner von Heidenstam

Swedish writer (1859–1940)

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Lived 1859–1940, aged 81Sweden

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1859–1940
Aged 81

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Updated 2026-05-29

Swedish poet and novelist who won the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. Von Heidenstam filled his work with joy-of-life themes and a romantic fixation on Swedish history and landscape—the kind of nationalistic sensibility that played well with the Nobel committee.

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Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. His poems and prose work are filled with a great joy of life, sometimes imbued with a love of Swedish history and scenery, particularly its physical aspects.

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