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Eyvind Johnson | |
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Born | Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson 29 July 1900 Boden, Sweden |
Died | 25 August 1976 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 76)
Period | 1924–1976 |
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Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Literature 1974 (shared with Harry Martinson) |
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Children | 3 |
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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[1] 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.[2]