Eyvind Johnson

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.

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
  • Here's Your Life
  • Return to Ithaca
  • The Days of His Grace
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Literature
1974 (shared with Harry Martinson)
Spouses
  • Aase Christoffersen (1927–1938, her death)
  • Cilla Johnson (1940–1978)
Children3
Website
www.eyvindjohnson.se
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