Nils Ferlin

Nils Ferlin (11 December 1898 – 21 October 1961) was a Swedish poet and lyricist.

Biography Ferlin (right) and Finnish poet Elmer Diktonius in Helsinki, 1936. Nils Ferlin was born in Karlstad, Värmland, where his father worked at Nya Wermlands-Tidningen. In 1908, the family moved to Filipstad, and his father started his own newspaper. His father passed away the following year, and the family relocated from their comfortable home to a modest dwelling in the industrial district so that Ferlin could complete his education. He graduated at the age of sixteen.

Ferlin had a minor career as an actor and debuted at the age of seventeen in Salomé by Oscar Wilde. He continued his career with a traveling theater company.

Although many of Ferlin's poems are melancholic, they are not without humor. Several were set to music and became popular songs such as En valsmelodi, an attack on the music industry.

Several statues of Nils Ferlin have been erected in Sweden: one in Filipstad of him sitting on a park bench, one in the Karlstad city square of him standing on a table, and one near Klara kyrka in Stockholm of him lighting a cigarette. Fred Lane, Thord Fredenholm