Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish writer
Died when: 80 years 319 days (970 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940) 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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