“The key word in Dagerman’s writings is freedom.”
Dagerman broke onto the literary scene when he was twenty-two. He enjoyed phenomenal success publishing novels, short stories, a travel book about post-war Germany, plays, poems, and a large amount of journalism at a rapid rate. Then, suddenly he fell silent. In 1954, Sweden was stunned to learn that Stig Dagerman, the epitome of his generation of writers, had been found dead in his car: he had closed the doors of his garage and started the engine. Read more about Dagerman.
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- Opening at the Gothenburg International Film Festival: Vårt behov av tröst/Our Need for Consolation, a short film based on Dagerman's essay Vårt behov av tröst är omättligt/Our Need for Consolation Is Insatiable published two years before his death. Stellan Skarsgård is the on-screen narrator in this film by Dan Levy Dagerman which combines dramatization and documentary imagery to give insight into Dagerman's fight for his life. Read more