Lars Gustafsson

Lars Erik Einar Gustavsson (17 May 1936 – 2 April 2016) was a Swedish poet, novelist and scholar. He was born in Västerås, Sweden. 
Since the late 1950s he has produced poetry, novels, short stories, critical essays, and editorials. He earned international fame as a Swedish writer with literary awards such as the "Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais" in 1983, the "Heinrich Steffens Preis" in 1986, "Una Vita per la Litteratura" in 1989, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1994, and several others. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gustavsson died at the age of 79 on 3 April 2016 in Stockholm.