Erik Asklund

[1] Asklund grew up in the working class area Södermalm in Stockholm.

[2] 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.