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Profile of Nils Ferlin
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Nils Ferlin |
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11th December 1898 |
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Filipstad, Värmlands län, Sweden |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Nils Johan Einar Ferlin (December 11, 1898 - October 21, 1961) was a Swedish poet.
Nils Ferlin was born in born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at the Nya Wermlands Tidningen newspaper. 1908 the family moved to Filipstad and the father started his own paper. Unfortunately the father died one year later and the family was forced to move from their adequate residence to more simple living conditions at the industry district to still manage to stay in school which he graduated from at the age of sixteen.
Ferlin also had a minor career as an actor and debuted at the age of seventeen in Salomé by Oscar Wilde and continued his career with a traveling theatre ensemble.
There are several statues of Nils Ferlin: one sitting on a park bench in Filipstad, one in the Karlstad city square depicting him standing on a table, and one near Klara kyrka in Stockholm.
Bibliography
Free translation of titles in italics.
- En döddansares visor (1930) (Songs of a Death Dancer)
- Barfotabarn (1933) (Bare-foot Children)
- Goggles (1938)
- Med många kulörta lyktor (1944) (With Many multicoloured Lanterns)
- Kejsarens papegoja (1951) (The Emperor's Parrot)
- Från mitt ekorrhjul (1957) (From my Squirrel-wheel)
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