Erik Asklund, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erik Asklund

Swedish writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1908

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 06-Nov-1980

Profession: writer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Erik Asklund, born 20 June 1908 in Södermalm, Stockholm, died 6 November 1980 in Stockholm, was a Swedish writer.Asklund grew up in Södermalm in Stockholm.
He was a proletarian writer and published his first novel Bara en början ("Just a beginning") in 1929.
The same year he contributed to the influential modernist anthology Fem Unga ("Five Young Ones").
Most of his books, novels, stories and non-fiction, are set in his native Stockholm.
Asklund is best known for Manne, a series of autobiographical novels published in the 1950s.