Albert Engström

Albert Engström (1869–1940) was a Swedish artist, author and member of the Swedish Academy from 1922.

Career Engström was born in Lönneberga, Kalmar County (Småland) but spent most of his childhood in Hult near Eksjö, where his father was the railroad stationmaster. He graduated from Norrköping secondary school in 1888 and went to Uppsala University the following year to read Latin and Greek, a pursuit which he abandoned after two years. In 1892 he enrolled at the Valand School of Fine Arts in Gothenburg to study under Carl Larsson.

Engström coined the word "Grönköping" in 1895 as a caption for some of his drawings, thereby inventing the fictional Swedish town of the same name. In 2002 the CD Grönköping Tar Ton was issued in Sweden to commemorate one hundred years of Grönköpings Veckoblad (Grönköping's Weekly), a satirical monthly magazine that was founded in 1902. The album, depicting Grönköping in recordings made between 1908 and 1946, is available through iTunes.

Several of Albert Engström's stories have been translated into English and appeared in books and magazines published in England and the United States. Engström was a second cousin once removed to Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

Translations of his works Influential Swedish critics and authors of the 1890s. Albert Engström sitting in front. Charles Wharton Stork Charles XII, Hercules and Gustav Mattson

E. Sprigge and C. Napier The Grey Seal Osarkrak A Jest of Janson's Swedish Panopticon

Harold Borland Politeness The Journey to Stockholm of Mrs. Holm, the Dean's Wife The Power of the Press Whitsun Söderbom The Funeral Hat When I was Czar A Bookworm A Ghost Story An Uppsala Memory Causerie The Unkind Author

Edith T. Aney and Sven O. Karell Aidesimos of Aleppo Moose The Mystery of the Three Hundred Cans