Axel Lundegård
1861–1930
Biography
Axel Lundegård (1861–1930) was a Swedish writer, born at Västra Sallerup in Scania. He grew up in Hörby, where his father was the priest, and he went to Lund University in 1881. Later he became a well-known figure in Stockholm's literary life, and in 1930, the year he died, he became chairman of the Swedish Writers' Association.
He made his debut in 1885 with I gryningen (At Dawn), a collection of short stories, and went on to write novels, historical pieces, plays and verse. Among his best-known books are Titania (1892) and the three-part Struensee (1898–1900), a series of staged scenes about the Danish statesman Johann Friedrich Struensee. His closest literary relationship was with the novelist Victoria Benedictsson, who was eleven years his senior. He introduced her to Stockholm's literary circles and wrote the play Final with her in 1885. After her death in 1888 he finished her novel Modern and published a biography of her in 1890, and later critics have questioned how carefully he handled her papers.
The site holds Modern: En Berättelse, the novel Benedictsson was working on at the time of her death and which Lundegård completed. That is why the book is credited to both of them, and it is a good way to see the close working partnership between the two writers.
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Books
Modern: En Berättelse
by Victoria Benedictsson and Axel Lundegård
On a grey October morning a young man waits at Stockholm's Central Station for the mother he has not seen in years, a tall, worldly woman who spent two decades touring with an anatomical museum, and he dreads what she will turn out to be. Victoria Benedictsson and Axel…
Summary written by Claude Opus 5.5.