(1892-1984), blev født i Linköping, hvor hendes far var læge. Hun tog fil. mag.-eksamen i 1915, arbejdede 1916-24 som journalist og...
One of Astrid Lindgren’s most effective techniques is to let imagination engulf reality. The interpretation of the world by a ‘lying’ child...
In Edith Øberg's literary novels, women’s relationships with each other increasingly come to the fore as men recede into the background. Øberg is...
Coming-of-age novels by women after World War I often have a significant lesbian theme. The role model is frequently a single, independent career...
Karin Boye’s most inspired poems are born at the juncture of “the world of appearances – a world that depicts”, and “the other world, the heavy,...
Sår som ennu blør (Wounds That Still Bleed), a novel in verse by Karo Espeseth, is an account of a sexual sadist and his relationship...
All of Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s works revolve around the feelings of coercion, desperation, and revolt that the world of her childhood fostered....
(1895-1968), der blev født i Lysekil i Sverige, voksede op i Oslo. Ud over fire år i fortsættelsesskole efterfulgt af handelsskole studerede...
The Finnish author Hagar Olsson’s debut from 1916 was brought out the same year as Edith Södergran’s first poetry collection....
(1891-1948), der hører til de kvindelige pionerer inden for svensk journalistik, blev kendt for sine social- og rejsereportager. Da hun i 1914...
født 1907, har i Samuel August från Sevedstorp och Hanna i Hult, 1973, skildret forældrenes lykkelige ægteskab og sin egen harmoniske opvækst på...
(1914,1991), blev født i Västerås. Hendes far var avisredaktør, selv blev hun student i 1933, læste ved Stockholms Högskola og tog doktorgraden i...
