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    Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish...
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    1974 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded jointly to Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) "for a narrative art, farseeing in lands and ages, in the...
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  • and film actor Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976), Swedish novelist and short story writer Eyvind Kang (born 1971), composer and violist Eyvind Lambi, Norwegian...
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  • Return to Ithaca (novel) (category Novels by Eyvind Johnson)
    lit. 'The Surge of the Shores') is a 1946 novel by Swedish author Eyvind Johnson. It is based on the story of Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca after...
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    Dreams of Roses and Fire (category Novels by Eyvind Johnson)
    (Swedish: Drömmar om rosor och eld) is a novel by the Swedish author Eyvind Johnson published in 1949. Set in 1600s France, it is based on the events known...
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    parallels to Odysseus' ten years of wandering. Return to Ithaca (1946) by Eyvind Johnson is a more realistic retelling of the events that adds a deeper psychological...
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    execution have attracted the attention of writers Alexandre Dumas père, Eyvind Johnson, Aldous Huxley and the playwright John Whiting, filmmaker Ken Russell...
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    Swede Eyvind Johnson "for writings that catch the dewdrop and reflect the cosmos". The choice was controversial, as both Martinson and Johnson were members...
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    Karlfeldt in 1931, Pär Lagerkvist in 1951, and the shared prize to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson in 1974. Selma Lagerlöf was elected a member of...
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    introduced a new continent into literature" novel, short story, drama 1974 Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976)  Sweden Swedish "for a narrative art, farseeing in lands...
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  • the book was based upon Dreams of Roses and Fire — a 1949 novel by Eyvind Johnson based on the same events. Mother Joan of the Angels — a 1961 Polish...
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    Hewish Paul Flory Albert Claude; Christian de Duve; George Emil Palade Eyvind Johnson; Harry Martinson Seán MacBride; Eisaku Satō Gunnar Myrdal; Friedrich...
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  • The Days of His Grace (category Novels by Eyvind Johnson)
    His Grace (Swedish: Hans nådes tid) is a 1960 novel by Swedish writer Eyvind Johnson. Set mostly in northern Italy, close to Aquileia, it tells the story...
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    20th century. The film was based upon an autobiographical novel by Eyvind Johnson. For the film he won the Guldbagge Award for Best Director at the 4th...
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    Ronald Syme, Carl Zuckmayer, André Schwarz-Bart, Josep Carner and Eyvind Johnson (awarded in 1974). British novelist E. M. Forster earned the highest...
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  • 1936) is widely read. Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson developed the Swedish autobiograpichal novel with works such as Johnson's novel series Romanen...
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  • Wiesel, Physiology or Medicine, 1981 Bertil Ohlin, Economics, 1977 Eyvind Johnson, Literature, 1974 Harry Martinson, Literature, 1974 Gunnar Myrdal, Economics...
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  • group of non-academic, self-taught writers like Ivar Lo-Johansson, Eyvind Johnson, Jan Fridegård and Harry Martinson appeared writing about the working-class...
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    Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly Sachs, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson and Tomas Tranströmer. World-famous Nordic children's...
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    Nominator(s) 1 Ivo Andrić (1892–1975)  Yugoslavia novel, short story, poetry Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) Harry Martinson (1904–1978) Association of Writers of Yugoslavia...
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  • 1966. The film is based on a novel of the same name, the second of Eyvind Johnson's semi-autobiographical series of four novels Romanen om Olof, about...
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    Finnish and Swedish. Pohjanen won the Rubus arcticus in 1995 and the Eyvind Johnson literature prize in 2010. "Bengt Pohjanen". Archived from the original...
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    him in 1961, Eyvind Johnson and Athanasius Trypanis Trypanis both nominated in 1962 and it was the 1963 nomination again by Eyvind Johnson that won him...
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    Fabricius, ice hockey player Stefan Gunnarsson, singer, piano player Eyvind Johnson, author, Nobel Prize winner in literature 1974 Lennart Klockare, politician...
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    (1909–1994)  Romania  France drama, essays Erik Lindegren (1910–1968) 31 Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976)  Sweden novel, short story Carl-Eric Thors (1920–1986) 32...
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    author to become a recipient of the prize after Harry Martinson and Eyvind Johnson who were jointly awarded in 1974. Tomas Tranströmer has this ability...
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    satiric or dramatic purposes (e.g. some characters in the books of Eyvind Johnson or the police detective Einar Rönn in the crime novels of Maj Sjöwall...
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    authors with notable heritage in Stockholm were the Nobel Prize laureate Eyvind Johnson (1900–1976) and the popular poet and composer Evert Taube (1890–1976)...
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  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Pär Lagerkvist, Halldór Laxness, Nelly Sachs, Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson, Tomas Tranströmer, and Jon Fosse. In medieval times...
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    The 1949 novel titled Drömmar om rosor och eld by the Swedish author Eyvind Johnson tells the story of the trial of Urbain Grandier, priest of the town...
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