Ivar Lo-Johansson

Ivar Lo-Johansson was born in Ösmo, in Södermanland, on 23 February 1901, into a family of statare, those farm workers on the great estates paid mostly in kind. Self-taught, he worked at many trades and travelled in France, England, Spain and Hungary, from which he drew his first reportage books. A central figure among Swedish proletarian writers, he received in 1979 the Nordic Council's literature prize for a book of memoirs, and in 1986 the first literary prize of the trade union confederation. He died in Stockholm on 11 April 1990, aged eighty-nine.

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• NovelStatarnaIvar Lo-Johansson · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature