ABSTRACT
For a small country of 10 million, albeit with a past that saw it as one of Europe's most powerful countries, Sweden has managed a cultural repertoire of considerable breadth. In 1980, and by a nice turn of irony, the Frank Heller prize in literature was founded in his honor and in 1987 it was awarded to Sture Dahlstrom. In 1939 the 17-year-old Sture Dahlstrom was to be found as an employee on the floor of an arms-manufacturing factory in the small Swedish town of Huskvarna. Dahlstrom grew up in Sweden and muddled on as a jazz musician. In common with both Kerouac and Ginsberg, Dahlstrom was greatly interested in philosophy and Buddhism. The American Beat writers have long been tasked with being a Boy's Club, sidelining or simply ignoring women and their lives. Over the years Ulf Lundell has released several novels, but for much of the time he was more focused on his music.
