For 10 points, name this Swedish author of Barabbas and The Dwarf.
During World War I he wrote the depressing "Anguish," but in the 1920s he changed tone in "The Eternal Smile," Guest of Reality, and "The Triumph over Life." His manifesto on radical literature, "Literary and Pictorial Art," was exemplified by his play cycle "The Difficult Hour." He condemned Fascism in "The Man Without a Soul" and addressed broader examples of inhumanity in The Hangman and "Let Man Live." He is likely most known for two novels, one about a man who rejects his criminal companions after being pardoned and another about a servant at an Italian court. For 10 points, name this Swedish author of Barabbas and The Dwarf.
During World War I he wrote the depressing "Anguish," but in the 1920s he changed tone in "The Eternal Smile," Guest of Reality, and "The Triumph over Life."
Pär Fabian {Lagerkvist}