Erik Asklund, born 20 June 1908 in

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, Stockholm, died 6 November 1980 in Stockholm, was a Swedish writer. Asklund grew up in the

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area Södermalm in Stockholm. He was a proletarian writer and published his first novel ''Bara en början'' ("Just a beginning") in 1929. The same year he contributed to the influential

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anthology ''

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'' ("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

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s 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