Eyvind Johnson
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| Born | Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson 29 July 1900 near Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden |
| Died | 25 August, 1976 (aged 75) , Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Period | 1924–1976 |
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1974 (shared with Harry Martinson) |
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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 he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
Johnson was born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson in Svartbjörnsbyn village in Överluleå parish, near the town of Boden in Norrbotten. In Boden they show the small house where he grew up.
His most noted works include Here's Your Life (1935), Return to Ithaca (1946) and The Days of His Grace (1960).
The choice of Johnson and Harry Martinson as Nobel Prize winners in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow and Jorge Luis Borges were the favoured candidates that year.
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