Henrik af Trolle

Born in Karlskrona on February 24, 1829, he was a Swedish naval officer and novelist. He died in Listerby on September 16, 1886.

His background in the navy strongly informed his writing, and he is remembered especially for fiction connected to maritime life. That mix of professional experience and storytelling gives his work a direct, lived-in quality.

Though not widely known today outside Swedish literary reference works, he stands out as a writer whose books grew naturally from a career at sea.