Eyvind Johnson
July 29, 1900 –August 25, 1976
Translator, Novelist, Journalist, Writer, Poet, Film director
Lived 76 years
- Born in
- Boden
- Passed away in
- Stockholm
Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Nordic Council Literature Prize, Dobloug Prize, Samfundet De Nio's Grand Prize, Östersunds-Postens litterature price
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