author
Ernst Lundquist
1851–1938
Best remembered as a prolific Swedish translator as well as a writer for the stage, he helped bring major European authors to Swedish readers and theatergoers. He published under his own name and also used the pseudonym Emmy Stern.
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Kepponen: Huvinäytelmä kahdessa näytöksessä
by Ernst Lundquist
About the author
Born in Nyköping on February 3, 1851, Ernst Gustaf Lundquist was a Swedish author, translator, and dramatist. He became especially known for literary translation, and reference sources identify him with the pseudonym Emmy Stern as well as the shorter form Stern.
Lundquist worked closely with the theater world: biographical records note that he served as a literary adviser at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm during parts of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also translated a wide range of notable writers into Swedish, including Walter Scott, Gustave Flaubert, and Knut Hamsun, showing the breadth of his literary interests.
He died in Stockholm on January 18, 1938. Today he is remembered less as a single-book author than as a steady cultural bridge between Swedish readers and the wider European literary tradition.