Erik Asklund
Erik Asklund, born 20 June 1908 in Södermalm, Stockholm, died 6 November 1980 in Stockholm, was a Swedish writer. Asklund grew up in Södermalm in Stockholm. He was a proletarian writer and published his first novel "Bara en början" ("Just a beginning") in 1929. The same year he contributed to the influential modernist anthology "Fem Unga" ("Five Young Ones"). Most of his books, novels, stories and non-fiction, are set in his native Stockholm. Asklund is best known for "Manne", a series of autobiographical novels published in the 1950s.