Fredrik Böök

Martin Fredrik Böök ( born May 12, 1883 in Kristianstad as Martin Fredrik Christofferson, † December 2, 1961 in Copenhagen) was a Swedish literature professor, critic and writer. He wrote biographies and books about Swedish poetry.

Besides Henrik Schück Böök was for decades one of the most influential Swedish literary scholar. From 1920 to 1924 he was a professor at the University of Lund. In 1922 he was elected a member of the Swedish Academy,

Because Böök personally initially considered to be award- worthy novel The Magic Mountain refused, the grounds of the Stockholm Committee for the 1929 Nobel Prize awarded to Thomas Mann was based almost exclusively on the Buddenbrooks. The reasons for the disqualification of the Magic Mountain 's novel is now hardly traceable: the work is " untranslatable " and " too wide and cumbersome ", also not in the aesthetics of the " grand style " integrated.

After the Second World War Böök lost its previously dominant role in the literary life of Sweden because he had cared to Nazi Germany a ratio of benevolent sympathy.