Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson was born on 29 July 1900 at Björkelund, near Boden, in Norrbotten, the son of a railway stonecutter. His father having fallen ill, he was raised by an aunt and her husband. He left school at thirteen, worked as a log floater, a sawmill worker and a projectionist, made his way to Stockholm in 1919, then lived in Germany and France; he learned to write by drafting trade union minutes. During the war he fought Nazism in Nordens Frihet. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1957, he shared the Nobel Prize in 1974, which caused a scandal. He died in Stockholm on 25 August 1976.

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• NovelThe Days of His GraceHans Nådes tidEyvind Johnson · 1960Literature