Poet Lars Gustafsson

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Lars Gustafsson

Living place: Vasteras

Birthday: 17-5-1936 (88 years old)

Global rank: #57816

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Who is Poet Lars Gustafsson?
A Swedish author, poet and scholar, he is best known for his 1978 novel, The Death of a Beekeeper, which was praised by John Updike. His other works include Sigismund, The Tale of a Dog, and The Happy People's Tale.
He taught writing and philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin 1983-2006.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He received his doctorate in philosophy from Uppsala University in 1978.

Family life info

He was born in Vasteras, Sweden. He then lived for many years in the United States.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Lars Gustafsson?
He and the famous playwright August Strindberg are both natives of Sweden.

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When was Poet Lars Gustafsson born?
Lars Gustafsson birthday 17-5-1936 (at the age of 88).
Where is Poet Lars Gustafsson's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Lars Gustafsson was born in Vasteras, of Sweden. is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rat. Lars Gustafsson's global rank is 57816 and whose rank is 290 in list of famous Poet.
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Events in 1936 and 17-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Lars Gustafsson

  • Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
  • King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
  • Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
  • War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
  • Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
  • Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.

Birthday Lars Gustafsson (17-5) in history

  • Day 17-5 year 1792: The New York Stock Exchange was established when a group of 24 brokers and merchants met by a tree on what is now Wall Street and signed the Buttonwood Agreement.
  • Day 17-5 year 1875: The first Kentucky Derby was held at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky.
  • Day 17-5 year 1938: NBC aired the Information Please quiz show on the radio for the first time.
  • Day 17-5 year 1954: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against segregation in schools in Brown v. Board of Education.
  • Day 17-5 year 1973: Televised Watergate hearings opened, headed by North Carolina senator Sam Ervin.
  • Day 17-5 year 1987: An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S.S. Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37 American sailors and wounding 62.
  • Day 17-5 year 1997: Laurent Kabila declared himself president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Day 17-5 year 2004: In Massachusetts, same-sex couples exchanged marriage vows for the first time in the United States.
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