Erik Asklund, born 20 June 1908 in Södermalm,

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, died 6 November 1980 in Stockholm, was a Swedish writer. Asklund grew up in the working class area Södermalm in Stockholm. He was a

proletarian writer Proletarian literature refers here to the literature created by left-wing writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat. Though the '' Encyclopædia Britannica'' states that because it "is essentially an intended device of revolution", it is ...

and published his first novel ''Bara en början'' ("Just a beginning") in 1929. The same year he contributed to the influential modernist anthology ''

Fem Unga ''Fem unga'' ("Five Young Ones" or "Five Young Men") is a Swedish anthology published in 1929 and the name of the literary group formed by the five young proletarian writers who contributed to it: Erik Asklund, Josef Kjellgren, Artur Lundkvist ...

'' ("Five Young Ones"). Most of his books - novels, stories and non-fiction - are set in his native Stockholm. Asklund is best known for ''Manne'', a series of autobiographical novels published in the 1950s.Svenskt litteraturlexikon, 1970

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20th-century Swedish novelists Swedish male writers Writers from Stockholm 1908 births 1980 deaths {{Sweden-writer-stub