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Bernt Fredgren
A little-known Swedish dramatist from the early 1900s, remembered today for a stage adaptation linked to Selma Lagerlöf and for work preserved in digital classic-literature archives.
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Suotorpan tyttö: Kansannäytelmä neljässä näytöksessä
by Selma Lagerlöf, Bernt Fredgren
About the author
Bernt Fredgren appears to have been a Swedish writer and dramatist active in the early 20th century. Reliable catalog-style sources about him are sparse, but he is listed by Litteraturbanken, the Swedish Literature Bank, and by Project Gutenberg, which suggests that at least some of his work has remained available through public-domain archives.
He is most clearly connected with Stormyrtösen, a 1913 folk play based on Selma Lagerlöf's story Tösen från Stormyrtorpet. That association makes him notable less as a widely documented literary celebrity and more as a writer whose work sits close to the world of Swedish stage adaptations and classic popular storytelling.
Because biographical information is limited in the sources available here, many personal details about his life cannot be confirmed confidently. Even so, his surviving bibliographic trail points to a writer whose work still has a small afterlife through digital libraries and reprints.