Swedish writer (1900–1976)
Swedish novelist who split the 1974 Nobel Prize with a fellow countryman — a rare tie that raised eyebrows, though the citation praised his "narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom."
Eyvind Johnson was born on 29 July 1900 in Sweden and built a career as a novelist and short story writer. Over decades he became regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature, a status that earned him membership in the Swedish Academy in 1957. Seventeen years later, on 25 August 1976, he died — two years after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, which he shared with Harry Martinson in a joint honor that remains one of the prize's most unusual moments.
Sourced, dated quotes from Eyvind Johnson
Man bör tänka sig själv som en person som finns i framtiden och kan bedöma – fördöma eller gilla – det jag som handlar idag, det jag som håller stånd eller sviker.
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