Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. His poems and prose work are filled with a great joy of life, sometimes imbued with a love of Swedish history and scenery, particularly its physical aspects.
- Occupation
- writer, poet, painter
- Position held
- seat 8 of the Swedish Academy
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Born
- July 6, 1859, 1859
- Died
- May 20, 1940, 1940
