Pär Lagerkvist's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

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Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature. The birth-card coordinate for May 23 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1951 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1951 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for the artistic vigour and true independence of mind with which he endeavours in his poetry to find answers to the eternal questions confronting mankind

The 9 of Clubs coordinate

Pär Lagerkvist's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Pär Lagerkvist. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.

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Pär Lagerkvist in the public record

Lagerkvist wrote poetry, plays, novels, short stories, and essays of considerable expressive power and influence from his early 20s to his late 70s. One of his central themes was the fundamental question of good and evil, which he examined through such figures as Barabbas, the man who was freed instead of Jesus, and Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew. As a moralist, he used religious motifs and figures from the Christian tradition without following the doctrines of a church. Lagerkvist was born in Växjö (Småland). He received a traditional religious education – he would later say, with little exaggeration, that he "had had the good fortune to grow up in a home where the only books known were the Bible and the Book of Hymns". In his teens he broke away from Christian beliefs, but, unlike many other writers and thinkers in his generation, he did not become vehemently critical of religious beliefs as such. Though he was politically a socialist for most of his life, he never indulged in the idea that "religion is the opium of the people". Much of his writing is informed by a lifelong interest in man and his symbols and gods, and in the position of Man (both as individual and mankind) in a world where the Divine is no longer present, no longer speaking.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Pär Lagerkvist (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs

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Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective

Pär Fabian Lagerkvist (23 May 1891 – 11 July 1974) was a Swedish author who received the 1951 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: author, literature.

Also on the record

1. In his early years Lagerkvist supported modernist and aesthetically radical views, as shown by his manifesto Ordkonst och bildkonst (Word Art and Picture Art, 1913) and the play Den Svåra Stunden ("The Difficult Hour").
2. One of the author's earliest works is Ångest (Anguish, 1916), a violent and disillusioned collection of poems.
3. His anguish was derived from his fear of death, the World War, and personal crisis.
4. He tried to explore how a person can find a meaningful life in a world where a war can kill millions for very little reason.

Other laureates with this card

• Alfred Fried — 1911 Peace
• Alva Myrdal — 1982 Peace
• Eisaku Satō — 1974 Peace
• Fritz Haber — 1918 Chemistry
• Guglielmo Marconi — 1909 Physics
• Henry W. Kendall — 1990 Physics
• Herta Müller — 2009 Literature
• Irving Langmuir — 1932 Chemistry
• James Peebles — 2019 Physics
• James Rainwater — 1975 Physics
• Jean-Paul Sartre — 1964 Literature
• John Bardeen — 1956 Physics; 1972 Physics
• 18 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Pär Lagerkvist's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. May 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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