ANDERSSON, DAN(IEL)

born , April 6, 1888, Skattlsberget, Swed. died Sept. 20, 1920, Stockholm poet and prose writer, an early practitioner of working class literature who became one of the few popular Swedish poets. Born to a poor family, he was a woodsman and charcoal burner before he became a temperance lecturer. His first two published volumes, which made the charcoal burners and, incidentally, himself famous, were Kolarhistorier (1914; Charcoal Burner's Tales) and Kolvaktarens visor (1915; Charcoal Watcher's Songs; a selection was translated into English in Charcoal Burner's Ballad & Other Poems, 1943). He published one more book of poems during his lifetime, Svarta ballader (1917; Black Ballads), and two autobiographical novels, De tre hemlsa (1918; The Three Homeless Ones) and David Ramms arv (1919; David Ramm's Heritage). A considerable part of his verse and prose was published after his death in Efterskrd (1929; Late Harvest) and Tryck och Otrycke (1942; Printed and Unprinted).