Evert Taube

Swedish writer, composer, troubadour, lute player, screenwriter and artist, born 12 March 1890 in Gothenburg, died 31 January 1976 in Stockholm.

Taube's collected literary contributions make him count as one of Sweden's national poets. His rich output includes prose and poetry as well as drawings, watercolors and oil paintings, but it is for the poems, more than 200 in total, that he is best known for. His prose includes, among other things, travelogues and novels.

He married to [a=Astri Bergman-Taube] in 1925.

He is the father of [a=Sven-Bertil Taube].