← Per LagerkvistBarabbasby Per LagerkvistSwedish novel of a criminal freed with Christ yet burdened by eternal spiritual doubtFind on Amazon↗About the authorPer LagerkvistSwedish novelist and poet who won the Nobel Prize in 1951. His existentialist prose was more celebrated, but his early expressionist poems show the same search for meaning.More by Per LagerkvistAngestSwedish existential novella exploring anxiety, mortality, and the human condition→Kaos och Ordning→The DwarfSwedish parable of a malevolent dwarf reflecting on good, evil, and human nature→