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Eyvind Johnson, (July 29, 1900—August 25, 1976) was a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. He became a member of the Swedish Academy
Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III of Sweden, is one of the Swedish Royal Academies of Sweden. Modelled after the Acad?mie fran?aise, it has 18 members....
 in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
 with Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson....
 in 1974 with the citation:for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.

The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene
Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
, Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow , was an acclaimed Canada-United States writer born in Canada of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988....
 and Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....
 were the favoured candidates that year.

Johnson was born in Näsberg village, Edefors parish Boden
Boden

Boden is the surname of these notable persons:* Fernand Boden, politician from Luxembourg* Jens Boden, German speed skater* Maggie Boden, British artificial intelligence researcher...
, Norrbotten
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
.






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Eyvind Johnson, (July 29, 1900—August 25, 1976) was a Swedish
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
 author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. He became a member of the Swedish Academy
Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III of Sweden, is one of the Swedish Royal Academies of Sweden. Modelled after the Acad?mie fran?aise, it has 18 members....
 in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
 with Harry Martinson
Harry Martinson

Harry Martinson was a Swedish sailor, author and poet. In 1949 he was elected into the Swedish Academy. He was awarded a joint Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974 together with fellow Swede Eyvind Johnson....
 in 1974 with the citation:for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.

The choice for Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene
Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour was an English writer best known as a novelist, but who also produced short stories, plays, screenplays, travel writing and criticism....
, Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow , was an acclaimed Canada-United States writer born in Canada of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988....
 and Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Multilingualism Russian-American novelist and short story writer.Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian language, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist....
 were the favoured candidates that year.

Johnson was born in Näsberg village, Edefors parish Boden
Boden

Boden is the surname of these notable persons:* Fernand Boden, politician from Luxembourg* Jens Boden, German speed skater* Maggie Boden, British artificial intelligence researcher...
, Norrbotten
Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County is a Counties of Sweden or l?n in the extreme north of Sweden. It borders to V?sterbotten County and the Gulf of Bothnia....
. In Boden they show the small house where he grew up.

His most noted works include Här har du ditt liv! (Here is Your Life!) (1935), Strändernas Svall (Return to Ithaca) (1946) and Hans Nådes Tid
The Days of his Grace

The Days of his Grace is a 1960 novel by Sweden Nobel laureate Eyvind Johnson. Set mostly in northern Italy, close to Aquileia, it tells the story of the fate of a Langobard family as their homeland falls under the domination of Charlemagne....
 (The Days of his Grace
The Days of his Grace

The Days of his Grace is a 1960 novel by Sweden Nobel laureate Eyvind Johnson. Set mostly in northern Italy, close to Aquileia, it tells the story of the fate of a Langobard family as their homeland falls under the domination of Charlemagne....
) (1960).

Bibliography

  • De fyra främlingarna (1924)
  • Timans och rättfärdigheten (1925)
  • Stad i mörker (1927)
  • Stad i ljus (1928)
  • Minnas (1928)
  • Kommentar till ett stjärnfall (1929)
  • Avsked till Hamlet (1930)
  • Natten är här (1932)
  • Bobinack (1932)
  • Regn i gryningen (1933)
  • Romanen om Olof:
  1. Nu var det 1914 (1934)
  2. Här har du ditt liv!
    Here's Your Life

    Here's Your Life is a 1966 Sweden Drama film directed by Jan Troell, based on Eyvind Johnson's semi-autobiographical novel Romanen om Olof, about a working-class boy growing up in northern Sweden....
     (1935)
  3. Se dig inte om! (1936)
  4. Slutspel i ungdomen (1937)
  • Nattövning (1938)
  • Den trygga världen (1940)
  • Soldatens återkomst (1940)
  • Krilonromanen:
  1. Grupp Krilon (1941)
  2. Krilons resa (1942)
  3. Krilon själv (1943)
  • Sju liv (1944)
  • Strändernas svall (1946, för teater 1948)
  • Dagbok från Schweiz (1949)
  • Drömmar om rosor och eld (1949)
  • Lägg undan solen (1951)
  • Romantisk berättelse (1953)
  • Tidens gång (1955)
  • Vinterresa i Norrbotten (1955)
  • Molnen över Metapontion (1957)
  • Vägar över Metaponto - en resedagbok (1959)
  • Hans Nådes tid (1960) (ingår i Världsbiblioteket)
  • Spår förbi Kolonos - en berättelse (1961)
  • Livsdagen lång (1964)
  • Stunder, vågor - anteckningar, berättelser (1965)
  • Favel ensam (1968)
  • Resa i hösten 1921 (1973)
  • Några steg mot tystnaden (1973)

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