![]() ![]() In his teens he broke away from Christian beliefs, but, unlike many other writers and thinkers in his generation, he did not become vehemently critical of religious beliefs as such. ![]() He received a traditional religious education – he would later say, with little exaggeration, that he "had had the good fortune to grow up in a home where the only books known were the Bible and the Book of Hymns". As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of a church. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew. Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. Pär Fabian Lagerkvist ( – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, short story writer ![]()
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