1. Sven Oskar Lindqvist was a prolific Swedish author whose 35 books range from essays, aphorisms, autobiography, and documentary prose to travel and reportage.
14 Facts About Sven Lindqvist
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Sven Lindqvist was educated at Stockholm University, and spent a year as a cultural attache in Beijing, but spent most of his life as a writer, known for his persistence and independence.
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Sven Lindqvist won many of Sweden's most prestigious literary and journalistic awards.
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Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm on 28 March 1932.
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Sven Lindqvist's works have been translated into English, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish among other languages.
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Sven Lindqvist occasionally published articles in the Swedish press, and wrote for the cultural supplement of the largest Swedish daily, Dagens Nyheter, since 1950.
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Sven Lindqvist's work was mostly non-fiction, including several genres: essay, documentary prose, travel writing and reportage.
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Sven Lindqvist was known for his works on developing nations in Africa and the Saharan countries, China, India, Latin America and Australia.
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Sven Lindqvist went into his work and the gates closed behind him.
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Sven Lindqvist has dug where he has been standing in Swedish class injustices and uncovered the horrendous evil of colonialism deeper, broader and with more originality than any other Swedish writer.
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Sven Lindqvist lived in the Sodermalm area of central Stockholm, where he died on 14 May 2019, at the age of 87.
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Sven Lindqvist stated that the image of Nazi atrocity and the novella came together in his mind, and in Exterminate all the Brutes he argues that Hitler grew up in a time when the whole of the Western world was "soaked in the conviction" that imperialism was a biological necessity that inevitably destroyed "the lower races".
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Sven Lindqvist argued controversially that this attitude had already killed millions in genocides before Hitler's application of the principle to white people, and noted that his book had resulted in academic study of the "effect of colonial atrocities on Nazi crimes".
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Sven Lindqvist described the book's structure as "a labyrinth with twenty-two entrances and no exit", which was intended to reflect the chaos caused by strategic bombing.