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Lars Huldén

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Lars Evert Huldén (5 February 1926 – 11 October 2016) was a Finland-Swedish writer, scholar and translator. Born in Jakobstad, Finland, to the writer Elis Evert Huldén and the teacher Ester Sofia Nyvik, he was professor at University of Helsinki 1964–1989, having received his doctorate there in 1957. In 1986 Huldén received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1993. He was married to Ingeborg Helena Slotte from 1948. He also served as chairman of the Society of Swedish Authors in Finland from 1972 to 1978 and of the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland from 1983.