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Josef Kjellgren

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Josef Kjellgren in the early 1940's.

Josef Kjellgren, born 13 november 1907 in Mörkö, Södermanland, died 8 april 1948 in Stockholm was a swedish writer.

Kjellgren was a proletarian writer and a member of the literary group Fem unga ("Five young men") who introduced modernist literature in Sweden with an anthology of the same name in 1929. Kjellgren published poetry and books about his travels in Europe in the early 1930's. But he is best known for his later novels, including Människor kring en bro (1935), about the building of Västerbron in Stockholm, and Smaragden (1936).

References

Josef Kjellgren, Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon (in swedish)

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