Around the 1800’s, Swedish literature was centered on the “narrated drama” genre, which was mainly impacted by two writers: Selma Lagerlöf and August Strindberg. Around the early 1900’s, literature was influenced by social issues and by Pär Lagerkvist, who introduced lyricism, a style of poetry in which the words are written like lyrics. In the 1900’s to the early 1940’s, Karin Boye, introduced a modernistic style and is well known for being ahead of her time. Today, literature is “less linguistically experimental,” as explained by Swedish writer Anneli Jordahl.~Kennedy
