Elsie Johansson
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Elsie Johansson at the Gothenburg Book Fair in 2008. | |
Born | Vendel, Sweden | 1 May 1931
Occupation | Writer |
Language | Swedish |
Nationality | Swedish |
Period | 1979- |
Notable works |
Elsie Gunborg Johansson (born 1 May 1931 in Uppland, Sweden) is a Swedish writer. She is sometimes considered a proletarian writer.
Biography[]
Elsie Johansson was born in Vendel as the fifth child of a statare. Her father would later find work as a lumberjack and construction worker. The Johansson family lived under sparse circumstances in a simple cabin, which would later serve as inspiration for similar housings found in Johansson's novels. Owing to the persuasion of a female teacher, Johansson was allowed to attend realskola in Uppsala, from which she graduated in 1948; upon graduation, she found employment as a postal worker. She married at the age of 18, and had a child at 19.
Johansson would work at the post office for another 30 years, before making her literary debut with the poetry collection Brorsan hade en vevgrammofon, at the age of 48. Her first novel, Kvinnan som mötte en hund, followed in 1984. In addition to her poems and novels intended for adult readers, she has written a number of books for children and adolescents.
Her breakthrough as a writer came with the Nancy trilogy (Glasfåglarna, Mosippan and Nancy), which earned her several awards, amongst others the . Johansson also received the Litteris et Artibus award.
Bibliography[]
- 1979 – ("Brotha Had a Wind-up Grammophone")
- 1981 – ("Potato Ballads")
- 1984 – ("The Woman Who Met a Dog")
- 1985 – ("The Brown Envelope")
- 1987 – ("Walk in My Grass")
- 1987 – ("The Grandmother Mystery") (children's novel)
- 1989 – ("Tiger Breakfast")
- 1989 – ("Everyday Thoughts")
- 1990 – ("They Don't Frighten Us")
- 1991 – ("The Cat Letters") (children's novel)
- 1992 – ("The Power of Words and the Words of Power")
- 1995 – ("The Tightrope Walker")
- 1995 – ("The Gold Man")
- 1996 – ("The Glass Birds")
- 1998 – ("Poems 1979-1989")
- 1998 – ("The Spring Pasque Flower")
- 2001 –
- 2003 – ("The Story of Nancy") (volume collecting Glasfåglarna, Mosippan and Nancy)
- 2004 – ("The Water Lily Tree")
- 2008 – ("Her Lonely Body")
- 2011 – ("When Now Is Me")
- 2016 - ("The Real Elsie")
Awards and honors[]
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998 (for Mosippan)
- Moa Award 1999
- Stig Dagerman Prize 2001
- 2001
- 2001
- 2002
- 2002
- The Litteris et Artibus medal 2002
- 2004
- 2006
- 2008
- 2009 (for Sin ensamma kropp)
References[]
- "Elsie Johansson" (in Swedish). Bonniers. Archived from the original on 22 August 2010. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- Anna Panic (April 2005). "Elsie Johansson gästade Årsta" (PDF). TerminalFACKTUELLT (in Swedish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- Swedish-language writers
- Swedish children's writers
- Swedish women children's writers
- Sommar (radio program) hosts
- 1931 births
- Litteris et Artibus recipients
- Living people
- Writers from Uppland
- People from Tierp Municipality
- Moa Award recipients