author
Edvard Bäckström
1841–1886
A Swedish poet, dramatist, journalist, and translator, he was known for elegant, reflective verse and for moving easily between literature and public life in 19th-century Stockholm. His writing won notice for its finely shaped elegies, while his career also reached into theater, song texts, and newspaper work.
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Eevan sisaret: Yksinäytöksinen kuvaelma
by Edvard Bäckström
About the author
Born in Stockholm on October 27, 1841, Edvard Bäckström was a Swedish writer whose work ranged across poetry, drama, journalism, translation, and song lyrics. He belonged to the literary world of his time from an early stage and was the son of the historian and writer Per Olof Bäckström.
Bäckström first gained attention in the 1860s as a poet. He became especially admired for his elegies and other thoughtful, melancholy poems, and he was also active as a dramatist. Alongside his literary writing, he built a substantial career in journalism and later served as editor of Post- och Inrikes Tidningar.
His life and work were closely tied to Stockholm, where he was also born and where he died on February 12, 1886, at just 44 years old. Though not as widely known today as some of his contemporaries, he remains a vivid example of the many-sided 19th-century author who could write poems, shape plays, translate texts, and help lead the public conversation of his day.