Birgitta Trotzig

Birgitta Trotzig was born in Gothenburg on 11 September 1929, the daughter of two language teachers, and grew up in Kristianstad, in Scania. She studied literary history and art history in Gothenburg, wrote as a critic and in 1949 married the painter Ulf Trotzig. Converted to Catholicism in 1955, she then lived for many years in France, and opened herself to Christian and Jewish mysticism and to Teilhard de Chardin. In her essays, she defended literature as a counter-language. Elected to the Swedish Academy in 1993, she died in Lund on 14 May 2011, aged eighty-one.

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• NovelDykungens dotterBirgitta Trotzig · 1985not translated into EnglishLiterature