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Swedish military officer, poet, writer and preacher

This article is about the Swedish novelist and Filadelfiakyrkan leader Sven Lidman. For his grandfather, the Swedish Lutheran priest Sven Lidman, see Sven Lidman (clergyman).

For Sven Lidman (born 1921), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman (lexicographer).

Carl Hindrik Sven Rudolphsson Lidman (June 30, 1882 – February 14, 1960)—military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, grandson of the priest Sven Lidman—was born in Karlskrona, became a sublieutenant in the Swedish royal army reserve in 1903, and studied law at Uppsala University.

He then began a promising career as a celebrated poet with Pasiphaë (1904), Primavera (1905), Källorna (1906), and Elden och altaret (1907). He also wrote the dramas Imperia (1907) and Härskare (1908), before starting to write novels: Stensborg (1910), Thure Gabriel Silfverstååhl (1910), Carl Silfverstååhls upplevelser (2nd editi