DAGERMAN, STIG

born Oct. 5, 1923, lvkarleby, Swed. died Nov. 4, 1954, Enebyberg, near Stockholm Swedish short-story writer, novelist, and playwright whose works, showing the influence of William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, and Dagerman's older compatriot, Eyvind Johnson, have been held to express a sense of Existentialist anguish. A journalist, Dagerman scored a critical success with his play Den ddsdmde (first performed, 1947; The Man Condemned to Die). He was associated with the literary magazines 40-tal (194748) and Prisma (194850). A collection of his stories, translated into English as The Games of Night, appeared in 1959, five years after his suicide.