Eyvind Johnson

Swedish writer (1900–1976)

Born: 1900

Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature 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-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.

Events associated with Eyvind Johnson

1976

Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)

1900

Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1976)