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A Short Biography of August Strindberg

Author Name:

August Strindberg

Born As:

Johan August Strindberg

Other Names:

Born:

22 Jan 1849

Died:

14 May 1912




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Dramatist and painter                          
Selected Works:

The Outlaw - 1871
From Fjerdingen and Svartbäcken - short stories - 1877
Master Olof - drama - 1872
The Red Room - novel - 1879
Swedish People at Work and Play - social history - 1881-1882
The New Country - novel - 1882
Lucky Pehr - drama - 1883
Swedish Destiny and Adventure - I-IV - short stories - 1882-1891
Poetry in Verse and Prose - 1883
Sleepwalker Awakens to the Day - fiction - 1884
Married I-II - short stories - 1884-1886
Utopian on Reality - short stories - 1885
Son of a Servant - I-V - autobiography - 1886-1909
Natives of Hemsö - novel - 1887
The Defense's Speech of a Fool - Le plaidoyer d’un fou - 1887-1895
The Father - drama - 1887
Miss Julie - drama - 1888
Comrades - drama - 1888
Life of an Island Lad - short story - 1888
Pariah - 1889
Among French Peasants - 1889
Creditors - drama - 1888-1889
The Stronger - 1890
Inferno - novel/autobiography - 1897
To Damascus - dramatic trilogy - 1898-1902
Gustav Vasa - drama - 1899
Erik XIV - drama - 1899
The Dance of Death - 1900
Easter - drama - 1900
Engelbrekt - drama - 1901
A Dream Play - drama - 1902
Swan Blood - drama - 1902
A Soul's Advance - 1886-1903 - nine volumes
The Chamber Plays: The Storm - The Burned Site - The Pelican - The Ghost Sonata - 1907
Merry Christmas! - a verse drama - 1909
The Great Highway - drama - 1909
Carl XII - 1916
An Attempt at Reform - Unknown.                          
Mother Ulrika Eleonora Norling
Father Carl Oscar Strindberg
First wife  Siri von Essen, 1850-1912
Second wife Frida Uhl, 1872-1943
Third wife Harriet Bosse,1878-1961