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[[File:Lars Ahlin.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Lars Ahlin]]
[[File:Lars Ahlin and Gunnel Ahlin, 1960.jpg|thumb|Lars Ahlin with his wife [[Gunnel Ahlin|Gunnel]], 1960.]]
'''Lars Ahlin''' (4 April 1915 – 11 March 1997) was a Swedish author and aesthetician.

==Biography==
Ahlin left school when he was 13 to support his family, although he later attended several folk high schools. When he was 18, he had a mystical experience.  He eventually moved to [[Stockholm]], where he wrote two unpublished novels before his first success, ''Tåbb med manifestet'' (''Tåbb with the Manifesto'', 1943). The story, about a young proletarian who rejects the values of communism in favor of a secularized Lutheran theology where man is judged by his deeds, without preconceived notions, set the stage for his subsequent works.  Critics have compared Ahlin to [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]] and [[Thomas Mann]]. Among the awards he received are the [[Prize of the Nine]] in 1960, the [[Great Novel Prize]] in 1962, and the [[Small Nobel Prize]] in 1966. In 1995, he won the [[Swedish Academy Nordic Prize]], known as the 'little Nobel'.

==Notable works==
*''Tåbb med manifestet'', 1943
*''No Eyes Await Me'' (story collection), 1944
*''Min död är min'' (''My Death Is My Own''), 1945
*''Om'' (''If, About, Around''), 1946
*''Kanelbiten'' (''The Cinnamon Girl''), 1953
*''The Great Amnesia'', 1954
*''Natt i marknadstältet'' (''Night in the Market Tent''), 1957
*''Bark and Leaves'', 1961
*''Sjätte munnen'' (''The Sixth Mouth''), 1985
*''[[De sotarna! De sotarna!]]'' (''The Chimney Sweepers! The Chimney Sweepers!''), 1991

==References==
*"Ahlin, Lars", ''[[Academic American Encyclopedia]]'', 1991 edition, p.&nbsp;198.
*"Ahlin, Lars".  Encyclopædia Britannica.  ''Encyclopædia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite''.  Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, 2007.

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