August Strindberg

Johan August Strindberg 22 January 184914 May 1912 was a Swedish playwright novelist poet essayist and painter A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience Strindbergs career spanned four decades during which time he wrote over sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction autobiography history cultural analysis and politics A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes from naturalistic tragedy monodrama and history plays to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques From his earliest work Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action language and visual composition He is considered the father of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room 1879 has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel Description above from the Wikipedia article August Strindberg licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia