Dan Andersson (1888–1920) was a Swedish poet and writer, born in 1888 and died in 1920 at the age of only thirty-two. He wrote mainly poetry and prose, and his work often centers on forests, laborers, and wanderers, depicting natural scenery alongside the lives of working people and drifters. His language is plain yet musical, conveying a deep sense of compassion and solitude. His representative work, David Ramms arv, reflects his concern with inheritance, faith, and the predicaments of life. Because he died so young, public information about him is limited, and his life and full body of work are still little known in the Chinese-speaking world; the library currently holds only one of his works. Even so, he is regarded in Swedish literature as an important voice writing about forests and laborers, and he has had some influence on later Nordic workers' literature and lyric poetry.
