Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by Anthony Barnett. Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974) was one of Sweden's greatest, most prolifictwentieth-century novelists and short story writers. EVENING LAND is the first complete translation of Lagerkvist's ninth and final volume of poetry, the deceptively simple Aftonland (1953). An intensely private man who refused to court publicity, the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1951. Barnett's translation sets straight an earlier, unfinished and otherwise compromised version by W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg.