biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Missenträsk, NE Sweden. Tuberculosis interrupted her studies at the University of Uppsala, and she took to writing. Her early widely acclaimed novels include Tjärdalen (1953, The Tar Still) and Hjortonlandet (1955, Cloudberry Land). Her writing became more overtly political in the 1960s after her experiences of South Africa, Kenya, and Vietnam, but later, in the important series of novels beginning with Din tjänare hör (1977, Thy Servant Heareth), she returns to her roots and rural life in the north. |
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