Karl Leo Johannes Ågren (26 July 1928 – 6 June 1984) was a Finland-Swedish author. He was brother to Erik, Gösta and Inga Ågren. He married Maj-Britt Bergström in 1962.
Life Ågren was born in Nykarleby, the son of Rudolf Filemon Ågren, a farmer and worker, and Olga Elisabet Rosenblad. After completing middle school, he trained as a typographer and worked in this profession in Nykarleby until 1948. From 1951 to 1960, he worked in Jakobstad, where he also served as a reviewer for Jakobstads Tidning. He later relocated to Stockholm, Sweden, where he was employed as a typographer at Dagens Nyheter from 1964 to 1976."Ågren, Karl Leo Johannes". He debuted with the novel Hunger i skördetid, which focuses on the lives of tenant farmers (Swedish: ) in Swedish Ostrobothnia. Kungsådern, När gudarna dör, and Fädrens blod is a historical trilogy about forest tenant farmers from the beginning of the 18th century until the war in 1918.
Ågren died in Stockholm at the age of 55 in 1984.
Bibliography Hunger i skördetid, 1954 (Schildts & Co., Porvoo) Motsols, 1955 (continuation of Hunger i skördetid, Schildts & Co., Jakobstad) Farsarvet, 1956 Kungsådern, 1957 (Schildts & Co., Porvoo) När gudarna dör, 1959 (Schildts & Co., Jakobstad) Stämmor i nordannatten, 1960 (poetry, Schildts & Co., Tampere) Fädrens blod, 1961 (Schildts & Co., Porvoo) Ballad, 1962 (Schildts & Co., Tampere) Sällsamt skratta de döda, 1963–1964 Krigshistoria, 1971 (Författarlaget, Gothenburg)
Literature Britt Ågren: En bok om Leo. 1996 (A Book About Leo [en]) Gösta Ågren: En man gick genom stormen: Leo Ågrens liv och diktning. 1983. (A Man Walked Through the Storm: Leo Ågren's Life and Poetry/Writings[en]) Mauritz Edström: ''Rättsida på Finlands avigsida.'' Studiekamraten 54/1972, pp. 21–24. (The Right Side of Finland's Wrong Side [en])
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