Career
Gösta Ågren has praised the Gospel of Mark for its literary values and published the collection The Carpenter in reference to lieutenant He has published poems, essays and biographies. Among the literary awarded to him is the Finlandia Prize for Fiction for the poetry collection Jär (‘Here’) in 1989.
In his poems, Ågren often refers to the region he was born in, Ostrobothnia, on the west coast of Finland.
(Books from Finland once had t-shirts printed with a philosophical line from one of his poems: ‘Don"t worry, it will / never work out’ The shirts were highly popular).