Lars Huldén

Lars Evert Huldén (5 February 1926 – 11 October 2016) was a Finland-Swedish writer, scholar and translator. Born in Jakobstad, Finland, to the writer Elis Evert Huldén and the teacher Ester Sofia Nyvik, he was professor at University of Helsinki 1964–1989, having received his doctorate there in 1957.

Awards and honors In 2000, he won the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, known as the "little Nobel". He was also a recipient of the Finnish State Prize for Literature (in 1965, 1974, and 1982) and a prize from the Swedish Academy in 1980.