Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish writer and author. 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 ÖverluleÃ¥ parish, near the town of Boden in Norrbotten. In Boden they show the small house where he grew up. His most noted works include Här har du ditt liv! (Here's Your Life) (1935), Strändernas svall (Return to Ithaca) (1946) and Hans NÃ¥des Tid (The Days of his Grace) (1960). Continue Reading »

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