Erik Blomberg (writer)

Erik Axel Blomberg (17 August 1894 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish poet, translator and critic.

After graduating from gymnasium in 1912, he went to study at Uppsala University, where he earned a Licentiate's degree in art history in 1919.

According to him, one of the central tasks of the writer was to depict the realities of working people and the social and political contradictions in society.

As a literary critic, Blomberg praised writers of the proletarian school, such as Jan Fridegård, Ivar Lo-Johansson and Vilhelm Moberg.

[2] His poem Gravskrift ('Epitaph') was written after the Ådalen shootings in 1931, when five people were killed after the military opened fire against a demonstration of striking workers.