Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson
Born	Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson (1900-07-29)29 July 1900 near Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden
Died	Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Period	1924–1976
Notable works	Here's Your Life Return to Ithaca The Days of His Grace
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1974 (shared with Harry Martinson)
Spouses	Aase Christoffersen (1900–1938) Cilla Johnson (1940–1978)
Children	Tore Maria Carl-Anders
Website
www.eyvindjohnson.se

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.

Biography

Johnson was born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson in Svartbjörnsbyn village in Överluleå parish, near the town of Boden in Norrbotten. In Boden they show the small house where he grew up.

His most noted works include Here's Your Life (1935), Return to Ithaca (1946) and The Days of His Grace (1960).

Controversy

The choice of Johnson and Harry Martinson as Nobel Prize winners in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow and Jorge Luis Borges were the favoured candidates that year.

Bibliography

• De fyra främlingarna (short story collection, 1924)
• Timans och rättfärdigheten (novel, 1925)
• Stad i mörker (novel, 1927)
• Stad i ljus (novel, 1928)
• Minnas (novel, 1928)
• Kommentar till ett stjärnfall (novel, 1929)
• Avsked till Hamlet (novel, 1930)
• Natten är här (short story collection, 1932)
• Bobinack (novel, 1932)
• Regn i gryningen (novel, 1933)
• Nu var det 1914 (novel, 1934)
• Än en gång, kapten! (short story collection, 1934)
• Here's Your Life (Swedish: Här har du ditt liv!, novel, 1935)
• Se dig inte om! (novel, 1936)
• Slutspel i ungdomen (novel, 1937)
• Nattövning (novel, 1938)
• Den trygga världen (short story collection, 1940)
• Soldatens återkomst (novel, 1940)
• Grupp Krilon (novel, 1941)
• Krilons resa (novel, 1942)
• Krilon själv (novel, 1943)
• Sju liv (short story compilation, 1944)
• Return to Ithaca (Swedish: Strändernas svall, novel, 1946; drama, 1948)
• Pan mot Sparta (short story collection, 1946)
• Dagbok från Schweiz (1949)
• Drömmar om rosor och eld (novel, 1949)
• Lägg undan solen (novel, 1951)
• Romantisk berättelse (novel, 1953)
• Tidens gång (novel, 1955)
• Vinterresa i Norrbotten (1955)
• Molnen över Metapontion (novel, 1957)
• Vägar över Metaponto – en resedagbok (1959)
• The Days of His Grace (Swedish: Hans nådes tid, novel, 1960)
• Spår förbi Kolonos – en berättelse (1961)
• Livsdagen lång (novel, 1964)
• Stunder, vågor – anteckningar, berättelser (1965)
• Favel ensam (novel, 1968)
• Resa i hösten 1921 (1973)
• Några steg mot tystnaden (novel, 1973)
• Olibrius och gestalterna (youth short story collection, 1986)
• Herr Clerk vår mästare (original version of Minnas, novel, 1998)

External links

• Eyvind Johnson Society

Cultural offices
Preceded by Nils Ahnlund	Swedish Academy, Seat No.11 1957–1976	Succeeded by Ulf Linde