Lars Gyllensten

Swedish author
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In full:
Lars Johan Wictor Gyllensten
Born:
Nov. 12, 1921, Stockholm, Swed.
Died:
May 25, 2006, Solna (aged 84)

Lars Gyllensten (born Nov. 12, 1921, Stockholm, Swed.—died May 25, 2006, Solna) was a Swedish intellectual, professor of histology, poet, and prolific philosophical novelist. Gyllensten was reared and educated in Stockholm. He earned a medical degree (1953) at Karolinska Institute, where he later served as a professor of medicine (1955–73). In 1966 he was elected to the Swedish Academy, an organization that awards various literary honours, including the Nobel Prize for Literature. Two years later he was appointed to the Nobel Committee for Literature, and in 1977 he was made permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. In 1989, however, he ...(100 of 376 words)