Karl Leo Johannes Ågren (26 July 1928 – 6 June 1984) was a Finland-Swedish author. He was brother to Erik, Gösta and Inga Ågren. He married Maj-Britt Bergström in 1962.
Life
Ågren was born in Nykarleby, the son of Rudolf Filemon Ågren, a farmer and worker, and Olga Elisabet Rosenblad. After completing middle school, he trained as a typographer and worked in this profession in Nykarleby until 1948. From 1951 to 1960, he worked in Jakobstad, where he also served as a reviewer for Jakobstads Tidning. He later relocated to Stockholm, Sweden, where he was employed as a typographer at Dagens Nyheter from 1964 to 1976. He debuted with the novel Hunger i skördetid, which focuses on the lives of tenant farmers (Swedish: Torpare) in Swedish Ostrobothnia. Kungsådern, När gudarna dör, and Fädrens blod is a historical trilogy about forest tenant farmers from the beginning of the 18th century until the war in 1918.
Ågren died in Stockholm at the age of 55 in 1984.