Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson
Eyvind Johnson
BornOlof Edvin Verner Jonsson
(1900-07-29)29 July 1900
Boden, Sweden
Died25 August 1976(1976-08-25) (aged 76)
Stockholm, Sweden
Period1924–1976
Notable works
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Literature
1974 (shared with Harry Martinson)
Spouses
Children3
Website
www.eyvindjohnson.se

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]

  1. ^ Svenska Akademien
  2. ^ Brandsma, Elliott (2021). "Recovering a "Lost Europe": The De-Centering of Master Narratives in Eyvind Johnson's Natten är här". Humanities. 10: 46. doi:10.3390/h10010046.