August Strindberg
1849 CE–1912 CE · Playwright · Stockholm
August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, and painter, born in Stockholm in 1849. He studied intermittently at Uppsala University before returning to Stockholm, where he worked as a journalist and assistant at the Royal Library through the 1870s and early 1880s. His breakthrough novel "The Red Room" (1879) was followed, after he left Sweden in 1883, by the naturalist dramas "The Father" (1887) and "Miss Julie" (1888), and later the experimental works "A Dream Play" and "The Ghost Sonata." He lived for extended periods in France, Switzerland, and Germany, and endured a documented psychological and spiritual crisis in Paris in the 1890s recorded in "Inferno." In 1907 he co-founded the Intimate Theatre in Stockholm. He died there in 1912.
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