Erik Mesterton

Erik Mesterton (4 October 1903 – 10 January 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 1930s, 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.