Werner von Heydenstam (1859–1940) was a Swedish poet and prose writer who received the Nobel Prize in 1916 “as the most prominent representative of the new era in world literature.” The book introduces readers for the first time to poems, selected stories from the historical chronicle “Warriors of Charles XII” and the writer’s dramatic works. The work of the well-known classic of Swedish literature, Nobel Prize winner for 1951 Per Lagerkvist (1891–1974) is represented by poems translated into Russian for the first time, in which the writer “tried to find answers to the eternal questions facing humanity.” The volume includes the stories "The Smile of Eternity" and "The Executioner", the novel "The Dwarf" and "Speech after Receiving the Nobel Prize".