Sara Lidman

Sara Lidman was born on 30 December 1923 at Missenträsk, a village in Västerbotten, into a family of very devout smallholders. Suffering from tuberculosis, she spent long periods in a sanatorium, then studied at Uppsala. In the late fifties, she fought the plan for a Swedish atomic weapon; having left for South Africa in 1960, she was arrested there in 1961 over a relationship with a Black ANC activist, then lived in Kenya. From 1964 she campaigned against the Vietnam War, went to Hanoi, sat on the Russell Tribunal and supported the miners of the North. She died at Umeå on 17 June 2004.

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• NovelTjärdalenSara Lidman · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature