Erik Asklund

Erik Asklund, born 20 June 1908 in Södermalm, , died 6 November 1980 in Stockholm, was a Swedish writer.

Asklund grew up in Södermalm in Stockholm. He was a proletarian writer and published his first novel Bara en början ("Just a beginning") in 1929. The same year he contributed to the influential modernist anthology Fem Unga ("Five Young Ones"). Asklund is best known for Manne, a series of autobiographical novels published in the 1950s.

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