Which Swedish writer, who wrote the novel Jerusalem, was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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Jerusalem (Lagerlöf novel) Jerusalem is a novel by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1901 and 1902. The narrative spans several generations in the 19th century, and focuses on several families in Dalarna, Sweden, and a community of Swedish emigrants in Jerusalem. It is loosely based on a real emigration that took place from the parish of Nås in 1896.
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Selma Lagerlöf Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (] ; 20 November 1858 – 16 March 1940) was a Swedish author and teacher. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Bertel Gripenberg "Bertel" Johan Sebastian, Baron Gripenberg, born 19 September 1878 in Saint Petersburg, died 6 May 1947, was a Finland-Swedish poet. He was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature fourteen times.
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Irja Agnes Browallius Irja Agnes Browallius (1901–1968) was a Swedish teacher, novelist and short story writer. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1962.
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Woman with Birthmark Woman with Birthmark ("Kvinna med födelsemärke") is a 1996 novel by Håkan Nesser, which won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award in the same year. The English translation was published in 2009.
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Catharina Ahlgren Catharina Ahlgren (1734 – c. 1800) was a Swedish feminist writer, poet, translator, managing editor, and one of the first identifiable female journalists in Sweden. She is also known for her correspondence with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht. Ahlgren was a leading person in the "Female literary world of the 1750s and 1770s" in Sweden. She later emigrated to Finland, where she published the first Finnish paper in the country.
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Gabriel Jönsson Gabriel Jönsson (July 18, 1892 – April 23, 1984) was a Swedish author and poet, best known for his works inspired by Öresund and farming.
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Birgitta Stenberg Birgitta Stenberg (26 April 1932 – 23 August 2014) was a Swedish author, translator and illustrator. She was the 2005 winner of the Selma Lagerlöf Prize.
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According to Mary Magdalene According to Mary Magdalene (Swedish: "Enligt Maria Magdalena" , 1997) is a novel by the Swedish novelist Marianne Fredriksson. It attempts to portray the life of the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as told by herself. The author claims to have based the book on Gnostic manuscripts, such as the Gospel of Mary, that were discovered in recent times. The English version was published 1999.
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Lina Sandell Lina Sandell (full name: Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell-Berg) (3 October 1832–27 July 1903) was a Swedish poet and author of gospel hymns.
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Brita von Horn Brita Clara Alice Augusta Florence von Horn (1 April 1886 – 14 February 1983) was a Swedish novelist, dramatist, director and theatre leader. She worked in the theatre scene in Stockholm and published several books.
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Hilma Angered Strandberg Elisabet Kristina Hilma Angered Strandberg (June 10, 1855 in Stockholm - January 23, 1927 in Meran), was a Swedish writer. She mostly wrote under the name Hilma Strandberg of the pseudonym Lilian.
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Karin Smirnov Karin Smirnov or Smirnoff, née Strindberg (26 February 1880 – 10 May 1973) was a Finland-Swedish writer. She was the daughter of August Strindberg and Siri von Essen.
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Agnes von Krusenstjerna Agnes von Krusenstjerna (October 9, 1894 – March 10, 1940) was a Swedish writer and noble. She was a controversial writer whose books challenged the moral standards of the day and was the center of a great literary controversy of the freedom of speech.
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Sara Stridsberg Sara Brita Stridsberg (born 29 August 1972 in Solna, Stockholm County) is a Swedish author and translator. Her first novel, "Happy Sally" was about Sally Bauer, who in 1939 had become the first Scandinavian woman to swim the English Channel.
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Aurora Nilsson Aurora Nilsson, also known as Rora Asim Khan (Västerhaninge 1 January 1894 - Södertälje 1972), was a Swedish writer who became known for her autobiographical novel about her experiences in Afghanistan during her marriage to an Afghan diplomat, Asim Khan, in the 1920s. A novel is based upon her story, as her work gives a valuable insight in the life of a harem in 1920s Afghanistan. Her divorce (1927) was at the time unique in Afghanistan. This memoir, tellingly entitled "Escape from Harem", is one of the first written by a Western woman married to a Muslim man.
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Hjalmar Bergman Hjalmar Fredrik Elgérus Bergman (19 September 1883 in Örebro, Sweden – 1 January 1931 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swedish writer and playwright.
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Gunnar's Daughter Gunnar's Daughter (1909) is a short novel written by Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset (1882-1949). This was Undset's first historical novel, set at the beginning of the 11th century in Norway and Iceland.
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Elin Brandell Elin Brandell (1882-1963), was a Swedish journalist and author. As a journalist, she was known under her signatures "Opolitiska frun" (Mrs Apolitical), "Regan" and "Clementine".
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Renate Dorrestein Renate Maria Dorrestein (born 25 January 1954 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch writer, journalist and feminist. She won the "Annie Romein" prize in 1993 for her complete body of work. She started working as a journalist for a magazine called "Panorama" and she published her first novel ("Buitenstaanders") in 1983. Her sister's suicide has had a great influence on her books.
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List of Swedish women writers This is a list of women writers who were born in Sweden or whose writings are closely associated with the country.
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Mathilda Malling Ingrid Mathilda Kruse Malling (Jan 20, 1864 – Mar 21, 1942), known as Mathilda Malling, and even better known by her early "nom de plume", Stella Kleve, was a Swedish novelist born January 20, 1864, on her family's farm, in North Mellby Parish, Kristianstad County, Sweden and died in København, Esajas sn, Sjælland, Copenhagen in 1942. Daughter of Danish estate owner, Frans Oskar Kruse, and Anna Maria Mathilda Borgström, she graduated from Lyceum for Girls in Stockholm, then studied at Lund University, in Switzerland, in 1884, and in Copenhagen, 1885-1886. In 1883 and was married in 1890 to merchant Peter Malling in Copenhagen.