Per Anders Fogelström
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Per Anders Fogelström (1917 - 1998) was among the leading figures in modern Swedish literature. He spent his whole life in Stockholm, and the most famous of his many works is a series of novels set in the city he dearly loved.
Fogelström's Stad (City) Series is a collection of five novels describing the lives of successive generations of Stockholmers between 1860 and 1968:
Mina Drömmars stad (City of my Dreams), published in 1960, covers the period from 1860-1880, and is the only one of the five books to have been published in an English translation (by Jennifer Brown Baverstam). Barn av sin stad (Children of their City), published in 1962, covers 1880-1900. Minns du den stad (Do You Remember the City?), published in 1964, covers 1900-1925. I en förvandlad stad (In a Transformed City), published in 1966, covers 1925-1945. Stad i världen (City in the World), published in 1968, covers 1945-1968.
Ingmar Bergman's taboo-breaking 1953 film Sommaren med Monika is based on Fogelström's novel of the same name, published in 1951.
The author of more than 40 books in total, Fogelström also served as director of the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society from 1963 to 1977. He received an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University in 1976. On the day he died, June 23, 1998, a bust of Fogelström was unveiled in Stockholm City Hall.
