(January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright and painter. He is ranked among Sweden's first authors. Strindberg is referred to as one of a fathers of modern theater. His act lessens into deuce major literary movements, Naturalism and Expressionism.

Strindberg was married to iii women, Siri von Essen, Frieda Uhl, & finally Harriet Bosse. Though he experienced youngsters by owning everthing of the two, his allergic, neurotic character led to bitter divorcement.

Strindberg's relationships by having women were troubled, & his bequest of words & deeds hwhen typically been interpreted as misogynist by both his coeval besides when modern readers. Nevertheless, virtually all acknowledge that he got rare insight into a hypocrisy of his society's gender expectations, sexual behavior & morality. Marriage and the family were under stress in Strindberg's lifespan when Sweden industrialized and urbanized at a rapid pace. Problems of prostitution & morality were debated heatedly amongst writers and critics besides when politicians. His early writing typically dealt by using a traditional roles of the sexes imposed by society, which he criticized as unjust.

Strindberg was admired per working classes as a radical writer. He was the Socialist (or possibly further of an Anarchist) and his girl Karin married one of a leading Russian bolsheviks. When for his political stand, Strindberg has been widely popular inside Socialist countries, like a Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and around Cuba.

He was the multi-many-sided creator; typically extreme. When his dying, a few psychoanalysts have speculated that his contradictory and hard character was due to his fear of his have latent homosexuality. Others invoke his early personal life. His father, Oskar, was the microscopic-nickel-and-dime merchandiser. His mother, world health organization he known as the servant, was originally his father's housekeeper prior to their marriage.

His novel The Red Room (Röda rummet) (1879) brought him fame. His early plays were written in the Naturalistic style, and his works from either this period come typically equated by using a Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. A right-known play from either this cycle is Miss Julie (Fröken Julie).

Late, he underwent the Time of inner turmoil called the Inferno Period, which culminated around the production of a book written in French, Inferno.

Afterward he broke by owning Naturalism and began to produce works informed by Symbolism. He is considered one of a pioneers of the Modern European stage & Expressionism. A Dance of Demise (Dödsdansen) & The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonatan) come easily-known plays from either this time.

These are non and then widely known that he besides was the telegrapher, painter, photographer and alchemist.

As the immature student, prior to he became the writer, he worked awhile as an help within a chemist's shop in the university town of Lund in southern Sweden.

inside his dying in 1912 from either cancer at a age of 63, August Strindberg was interred in the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.

Partial Bibliography
A Crook, 1871 From either Fjerdingen & Svartbäcken, short stories, 1877 Master Olof, drama, 1872 The Red Room, novel, 1879 Swedish Humans at Function & Play, social history, 1881-1882 A Just released United states, novel, 1882 Lucky Pehr, drama, 1883 Swedish Destiny & Risky venture, I personally-IV, short stories, 1882-1891 Poetry inside Verse & Prose, 1883 Sleepwalker Awakens to the Day, fiction, 1884 Married I personally-II, short stories, 1884-1886 Utopian in Reality, short stories, 1885 Boy of the Servant, I personally-V, autobiography, 1886-1909 Natives of Hemsö, novel, 1887 ''A Defense's Speech of the Fool, 1887-1895 A Father, drama, 1887 Miss Julie, drama, 1888 Life of an Island Lad, short story, 1888 Ishmael, 1889 Among French Peasants, 1889 Creditors, drama, 1888-1889 A Dance of Dying, 1900 A Dream Play, drama, 1902 A Ghost Sonata'', 1907