Lars Norén, Swedish playwright and poet, has died at 76

The playwright Lars Norén, a great figure in Swedish theater, died Tuesday at the age of 76, as a result of Covid-19, his publisher announced.

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", greeted Eva Bonnier, his editor at Albert Bonnier editions, in a communicated.

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at the Comédie-Française, a graceful dialogue with death

Famous at home and abroad, often placed in the lineage of the giants August Strindberg (1849-1912) and Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), he began with poetry in the 1960s before focusing on the theater at the end of the 1970s, as an author and director.

In addition to the Dramaten in Stockholm, he had notably staged numerous times at the Comédie Française in Paris, including his own play

his last, in 2018, a plunge into the torments of the end of life and dementia.

His best-known works include

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