Erik Mesterton

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Erik Mesterton (1903 – 2004) was a Swedish author, literature critic and translator. Together with poet Karin Boye he was editor for the influential culture magazine Spektrum in the 1930's, where Modernist (T. S. Eliot was a favourite) and Freudian readings of literature were introduced. Mesterton lived in Gothenburg where he also did research on literature with scholars from the University of Gothenburg.