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Henrik af Trolle
1829–1886
A Swedish naval officer who also turned to fiction, he wrote novels and shorter prose shaped by a life spent close to the sea. His work belongs to the rich tradition of 19th-century Swedish storytelling, where adventure, duty, and feeling often meet.
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About the author
Born in Karlskrona in 1829, Henrik af Trolle trained as a naval officer and served in the Swedish navy, taking part in both longer and shorter sea expeditions. Alongside his military career, he became known as a novelist and writer of shorter prose, bringing together professional discipline and a literary imagination.
He published a number of books during the later 19th century, including Krona och törne. His background in naval life gave him a distinctive place among Swedish writers of his time, and he is remembered as both a man of service and a man of letters.
Henrik af Trolle died in 1886. Today he is mainly of interest to readers drawn to older Scandinavian literature and to authors whose writing grew out of lived experience rather than purely literary circles.