# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunnel-vallquist
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:28:14.905Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunnel-vallquist"
name: "Gunnel Vallquist"
slug: "gunnel-vallquist"
description: "Gunnel Vallquist was a Swedish writer and translator. She was elected a member of the Swedish Academy. Vallquist wrote several essays on Catholic religion in contemporary times, and translated the seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust into Swedish."
tagline: "Swedish writer and translator, member of the Swedish Academy (1918-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gunnel_Vallquist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-06-19"
deathDate: "2016-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump