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[[Image:Bo Carpelan.jpg|thumb|Bo Carpelan in August 2008.]]▼
| honorific_prefix = Baron
[[Baron]] '''Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan''' (25 October 1926 – 11 February 2011) was a [[Finnish people|Finnish]] [[poet]] and [[author]].<ref name="kirjasto">[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/carpelan.htm Bo Carpelan<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://yle.fi/uutiset/kulttuuri/2011/02/bo_carpelan_on_kuollut_2356697.html YLE news, Bo Carpelan dies.]</ref> He published his first book of poems in 1946, and received his Ph.D. in 1960. Carpelan, who wrote in [[Swedish language|Swedish]], composed numerous books of verse, as well as several novels and short stories. Carpelan died of cancer on 11 February 2011.<ref name="kirjasto" />▼
| name = Bo Carpelan
| image = Bo Carpelan.jpg
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| birth_name = Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|10|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Helsinki]], Finland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|2|11|1926|10|25|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Espoo]], Finland
| nationality = [[Finland|Finnish]]
| language = Swedish
| alma_mater = [[University of Helsinki]]
| period = 1946–2011
| awards =
| notableworks = ''[[I de mörka rummen, i de ljusa]]<br>''Urwind''<br>''Berg''
| website =
| spouses = Barbro Eriksson
| children = 2
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▲[[Baron]] '''Bo Gustaf Bertelsson Carpelan''' (25 October 1926 – 11 February 2011) was a [[
In 1997, he won the [[Swedish Academy Nordic Prize]], known as the 'little Nobel'. He is the only person yet to have received the [[Finlandia Prize]] twice. He won the 2006 [[European Prize for Literature]]. His poem, ''Winter was Hard'', was set to music by composer [[Aulis Sallinen]].
He was a member of the Finnish noble family [[Carpelan]].
==Selected bibliography==
*''I de mörka rummen, i de ljusa'' (poetry collection, 1976)
*''Urwind'' (novel, 1993)
*''Berg'' (novel, 2005)
==References==
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