Bengt O Björklund: poet, artist, journalist, photographer, writer, musician and editor Bengt O Björklund was born in Stockholm 1949. Bengt has published twelve books of poetry; seven are written in English, five in Swedish. Bengt was in 2018 awarded Sweden Beat Poet Laureate by the National Beat Poetry Foundation Inc. and received his honor in Connecticut on September 1, 2018. For fifty years Bengt has written poetry both in his mother tongue, Swedish, and in English.