His enormous body of prose fiction, poetry, stage dramas and screenplays (including the Oscar-winning Pelle the Conqueror) won him virtually every major Nordic literary prize other than the Nobel. As he once told an interviewer, "Every time I feel depressed that I'm not doing anything, I look at this bookshelf [of my work] and say […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:36PM on April 28, 2020