Par Lagerkvist

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    November 1989
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Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • Evening Land

    Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Anthony Barnett. Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was one of Sweden's greatest, most prolific, twentieth-century novelists and short story writers. EVENING LAND is the first complete translation of Lagerkvist's n...

  • The Dwarf

    "I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls."

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  • The Sibyl

    "A parable, rather than a novel in the ordinary sense of the term, The Sibyl is . . . a work of manifold meanings and unmistakable profundity, one that can neither be easily understood nor easily forgotten." -- Granville Hicks, The New Leader...

  • The Marriage Feast

    This collection of stories written over a period of more than thirty shows the deep seriousness and astonishing versatility of Par Lagerkvist's imagination. From the commonplace charm of the title story, to the searing futuristic satire of "The Child...

  • Death of Ahasuerus

  • The Holy Land

    Lagerkvists 'The Holy Land' is a novel about one man coming to terms with the disappointments of his life and the ability to make the best of a seemingly futile situation. After he resigns to the reality of his oncoming demise, it turns out that it h...

  • Pilgrim at Sea

  • Herod and Mariamne

  • Barabbas

    Barabbas is the acquitted; the man whose life was exchanged for that of Jesus of Nazareth, crucified upon the hill of Golgotha. Barabbas is a man condemned to have no god. "Christos Iesus" is carved on the disk suspended from his neck, but he cannot ...



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Par Lagerkvist has published 9 books.

Par Lagerkvist does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Barabbas, was published in November 1989.

The first book by Par Lagerkvist, Evening Land, was published in January 1953.

No. Par Lagerkvist does not write books in series.
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