Lars Gustafsson

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Lars Gustafsson was a prominent Swedish novelist, poet, and philosopher known for his intellectually playful, metafictional works and significant influence on late 20th-century Scandinavian literature.

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Lars Gustafsson canonical 2
Gustafsson 1

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instanceOf essayist
human
novelist
philosopher
poet
university teacher
academicDegree PhD in philosophy
awardReceived Göteborgs-Postens litteraturpris
Pilot Prize
Svenska Dagbladet Literature Prize
countryOfBirth Sweden
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
dateOfBirth 1936-05-17
dateOfDeath 2016-04-03
educatedAt Uppsala University
employer University of Texas at Austin
familyName Gustafsson
fieldOfWork literature
philosophy
poetry
genre essay
novel
poetry
givenName Lars
influenced late 20th-century Scandinavian literature
languageOfWorkOrName Swedish
movement metafiction
postmodern literature
name Lars Gustafsson self-link
nationality Swedish
notableWork Bernard Foy’s Third Castling
The Death of a Beekeeper
The Silversmith
The Tennis Players
Yllet
occupation essayist
novelist
philosopher
poet
professor
placeOfBirth Västerås
placeOfDeath Stockholm
positionHeld professor of Germanic studies
professor of philosophy
religion Lutheranism
residence Austin
surface form: Austin, Texas

Berlin
Stockholm
sexOrGender male
writingStyle intellectually playful
metafictional

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Uppsala University hasNotableAlumnus Lars Gustafsson
Greta Garbo familyName Lars Gustafsson
this entity surface form: Gustafsson
Lars Gustafsson name Lars Gustafsson self-link