Pär Fabian Lagerkvist was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1951, announced November 15, 1951. Pär Lagerkvist, “for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind”. Pär Lagerkvist: born 1891, Växjö, Sweden. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).