33 Swedish male poets

Arvid August Afzelius was a Swedish pastor, poet, historian and mythologist.

Per Axel Ahlmark was a Swedish politician and writer. He was the leader of the Liberal People's Party from 1975 to 1978, and Minister for Employment and Deputy Prime Minister in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1978. He also served as a member of the Swedish parliament from 1967 to 1978.

Bengt Anderberg was a Swedish poet, novelist, editor and playwright.

Karl Werner Aspenström was a Swedish poet.

Karl Asplund was a Swedish poet, short story writer and art historian. He made his literary debut in 1912, and was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1955.

Albert Ulrik Bååth was a Swedish poet and author, often seen as A.U. Bååth. He was a senior lecturer in Old Norse literature at Göteborgs högskola from 1881 until 1911. He was the brother of Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg.

Erik Axel Blomberg was a Swedish poet, translator and critic.

Johan Börjesson was a Swedish prelate, poet, and dramatist, associated with the Swedish phosphorist and romanticist movements. He was holder of chair 3 of the Swedish Academy.

Richard Dybeck was a Swedish jurist, antiquarian, and lyricist. He is mainly remembered as the author of the lyrics to what is now the de facto Swedish national anthem, Du gamla, Du fria.

Karl Johan Gabrielsson (1861–1901) was a Swedish socialist writer and poet. The son of a railway worker, he was born to a poor family in Töreboda, Västra Götaland County, Gabrielsson eventually settled in Stockholm where he became a socialist and writer, mainly of revolutionary poems, for the newspaper Social-Demokraten. He died from tuberculosis in 1901 following a long illness.

Erik Gustaf Geijer was a Swedish writer, historian, poet, philosopher, and composer. His writings served to promote Swedish National Romanticism. He also was an influential advocate of Liberalism.

Anders Abraham Grafström was a Swedish historian, priest and poet.

Per Göran Greider is a Swedish social democratic journalist, author and poet. Greider's poetry was first published in 1981.

Helmer Grundström was a Swedish author and poet, born in the village of Svanavattnet in Ångermanland. Grundström was deeply associated with the Swedish workers’ movement and is characterized as a proletarian author.

Hjalmar Gullberg was a Swedish writer, poet and translator of Greek drama into Swedish.

Count Carl Gyllenborg was a Swedish statesman and author.

Lorenzo Hammarsköld was a Swedish critic and literary historian. He also published poetry.

Bob Hansson is a Swedish poet and author. Hansson has written nine poetry books, the made his debut in 1998 with the book "Heja Världen", after that he released another three poetry books. A poetic, an interview book "Kärleken Hur fan gör man", and four novels.

Ola Hansson was a Swedish poet, prose writer, and critic.

Karl Gunnar Harding is a Swedish poet, novelist, essayist and translator, considered 'one of Sweden's foremost poets'. Among his other poetry collections is Starnberger See from 1977. Among his novels is Luffaren Svarta Hästen from 1977. He published the children's book Mannen och paraplyet in 1990. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2011.

Alf Ragnar Sten Henrikson was a Swedish author, poet and translator, known for his interest in language and for his broad general knowledge. He wrote a number of books about popular science and history, and for many years he was part of the staff of Dagens Nyheter, where he published short poems about current events or other topics.

Leon Larson (1883—1922), sometimes written Larsson, was a Swedish anarchist and political poet, born in Skutskär.

J. Erik Lindegren was a Swedish author, poet, critical writer and member of the Swedish Academy. Grandson of composer Johan Lindegren.

Ture Nerman was a Swedish socialist. As a journalist and author, he was a well-known political activist in his time. He also wrote poems and songs.

Karl August Nicander was a Swedish lyric poet.

Anders Österling was a Swedish poet and writer. In 1919 he was elected as a member of the Swedish Academy when he was 35 years old, the youngest ever, at that time. He was part of the Academy for 62 years, longer than any other member.

Malte Persson is a Swedish author. His first book Livet på den här planeten "Life on this planet", a novel, was published in 2002. His subsequent two books are collections of poetry, Apolloprojektet "The Apollo Project" (2004) and Dikter "Poems" (2007). Persson has been said to belong to modernist group of LANGUAGE-poetry forming around the Swedish literary magazine OEI, but has also challenged this view, being a cultivator of tradition and traditionally formal verse. In 2008 Edelcrantz förbindelser was published, an historical novel set in the 18th and 19th centuries and focusing on the life of Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz. Underjorden "The Underground", a sequence of sonnets on the Stockholm metro, was published in 2011.

Eddie Råbock, previously Mohamed Omar, is a Swedish essayist, poet and literary critic of Swedish-Iranian origin. Råbock is the author of three collections of poetry. He was the editor of the Muslim journal Minaret from 2006 to 2008.

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long Swedish winters, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet.

Sven Axel Olaus Wallengren was a Swedish author, poet, and journalist, who wrote under the nom de plume Falstaff, fakir.

Per Erik Wästberg is a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

Jan Widströmer is a Swedish artist, now living in Falkenberg, Sweden. His father was a primary school teacher and a founder of a school for adults of which he was the headmaster; his mother was a piano teacher.

Carl David af Wirsén was a Swedish poet, literary critic and the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary 1884–1912.