Lars Huldén

Lars Evert Huldén (5 February 1926 – 11 October 2016) was a Swedish-speaking Finn writer, scholar and translator.

[1] Born in Jakobstad, Finland, he was professor at Helsinki university 1964–1989.

In 1986 Huldén received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden.

[3] He has researched Carl Michael Bellman, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Swedish dialects and toponomy.

[4] In 2000, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the "little Nobel".