लार्श लुण्डक्विस्ट / Lars Lundkvist
Born in Umeå, Sweden in 1928. Has published 18 collections of poetry and has received practically all the major awards for poetry in Sweden.
When his first wife Tove had their first daughter, he decided his course as a future poet – that he would write poems that even his daughter would be able to understand.
He lives with his Finnish wife in the city of Uppsala.