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Lars Ahlin


Born
in Sundsvall, Medelpad, Sweden
April 04, 1915

Died
March 10, 1997

Genre
Fiction, Classics, Short Stories


Lars Gustav Ahlin

Lars Ahlin was an award winning Swedish author and aesthetician.

Ahlin left school when he was 13 to support his family, although he later attended several folk high schools. When he was 18, he had a mystical experience. He eventually moved to Stockholm, where he wrote two unpublished novels before his first success, Tåbb med manifestet (Tåbb with the Manifesto, 1943). The story, about a young proletarian who rejects the values of communism in favor of a secularized Lutheran theology where man is judged by his deeds, without preconceived notions, set the stage for his subsequent works. Critics have compared Ahlin to Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Thomas Mann. Among the awards he received are the Prize of the Nine in 1960, the Great ...more

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Average rating: 3.37 · 298 ratings · 26 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors
Tåbb med manifestet
3.38 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1943 — 7 editions
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Natt i marknadstältet
3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1957
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Kommer hem och är snäll
3.16 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions
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Inga ögon väntar mig
3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1944 — 3 editions
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Sjätte munnen
3.10 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions
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De sotarna! De sotarna!
2.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1990
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Kanelbiten
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1953 — 4 editions
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Stora glömskan
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions
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Din livsfrukt: Roman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions
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Jungfrun i det gröna
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions
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Stora glömskan De sotarna! De sotarna!
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“När han kom kom han inte ensam. Han tog
hela sin värld med sig. Så är det alltid”
― Lars Ahlin, Huset har ingen filial
tags: jacques, personalism
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