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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: August Strindberg, Marianne Fredriksson, Vilhelm Moberg, Lukas Moodysson, Moa Martinson, Selma Lagerlof, Per Ahlmark, Sjowall and Wahloo, Karin Boye, Johan Kling, Per Olov Enquist, Hjalmar Soderberg, Eyvind Johnson, Elin Wagner, Sven Delblanc, Torgny Lindgren, Carina Burman, Karin Strom, Per Gahrton, Klas Ostergren, Marita Lindquist, Eugenie Soderberg, Johan Theorin, Emilie Flygare-Carlen, Hjalmar Bergman, Asa Linderborg, Martin Simonson, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Bo Giertz, Stig Stromholm, Jonas Gardell, Eva Strom, Gunnar D. Hansson, Frank Heller, Gabriella Hakansson, Sophie von Knorring, Olle Hedberg, Amanda Ooms, Gustaf af Geijerstam, Leon Larson, Tage Aurell, Kerstin Norborg, Martin Koch. Excerpt: Johan August Strindberg (.); 22 January 1849 - 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, painter, and essayist. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. The Royal Theatre rejected his first major play, Master Olof, in 1872; it was not until 1881, at the age of 32, that its premiere at the New Theatre gave him his theatrical breakthrough. ...
