Awards & Winners

Pär Lagerkvist

Date of Birth 23-May-1891
Place of Birth Växjö
(Sweden, Småland, Växjö Municipality)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Par Lagerkvist, Lagerkvist, Pär, Pär Fabian Lagerkvist, Pär Lagerkvist
Profession Writer, Screenwriter
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951. Lagerkvist wrote poems, plays, novels, stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and the Persian King Ahasuerus. As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of the church.

Awards by Pär Lagerkvist

Check all the awards nominated and won by Pär Lagerkvist.

1951


Nobel Prize in Literature
(for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind.)

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Prize in Literature

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Prize in Literature

1947


Nominations 1947 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Prize in Literature