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Eyvind Johnson, nato Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson (Svartbjörnsbyn, 29 luglio 1900 – Stoccolma, 25 agosto 1976), è stato uno scrittore e traduttore svedese. Diventò membro dell'Accademia Svedese nel 1957 e nel 1974 fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la letteratura insieme a Harry Martinson con la seguente motivazione:
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 [1] he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far ...
Eyvind Johnson. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1974. Born: 29 July 1900, Svartbjörnsbyn, Sweden. Died: 25 August 1976, Stockholm, Sweden. Residence at the time of the award: Sweden. Prize motivation: “for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom”. Language: Swedish. Prize share: 1/2.
Biographical. Born in 1900 at Svartbjörnsbyn near Boden in the north of Sweden. Parents, Olof Petter J., stonecutter from Värmland, and Cevia Gustafsdotter from Blekinge. There were six children in the family, of whom E.J. was the next youngest.
Nato a Svartbjörnsbyn nel 1900 da famiglia contadina, autodidatta, diventa uno dei più grandi autori svedesi, Premio Nobel nel 1974. La raccolta di racconti d’esordio ( I quattro sconosciuti, 1924), come i romanzi successivi, riflettono un modernismo costruito sulle orme di Joyce, Proust e Gide.
Eyvind Johnson was a proletarian writer who was influenced by the contemporary literary currents of his time. He is regarded as the modern novel art's foremost pioneer in Sweden. He made his debut in 1924 and had his breakthrough in 1930 with the semi-autobiographical novel about Olof .
Eyvind Johnson (born July 29, 1900, Svartbjörnsbyn, near Boden, Sweden—died Aug. 25, 1976, Stockholm) was one of the few working-class novelists to bring not only new themes and points of view to Swedish literature but also to experiment with new forms and techniques of the most advanced kind.
