Hagar Olsson
Hagar Olsson | |
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Born | 16 September 1893 Kustavi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire |
Died | 21 February 1978 Helsinki, Finland |
Occupation | Writer, literary critic, translator |
Literary movement | Modernism |
Alli Hagar Olsson (16 September 1893 – 21 February 1978) was a
Swedish-speaking Finnish writer, literary critic, playwright and translator.[1]
Olsson was born in Kustavi. In 1922 she edited an avant-garde literary magazine, Ultra.[2] She also contributed to another avant-garde magazine Quosego.[3]
In 1965 she received the Eino Leino Prize.[4] She died, aged 84, in Helsinki.
References
- ^ "Olsson, Hagar". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ISBN 9789401208918.
- ISBN 9789401208918.
- ^ Kustantajat.fi Archived 30 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- Media related to Hagar Olsson at Wikimedia Commons
- Olof Enckell (1949), Den unga Hagar Olsson : studier i finlandssvensk modernism. 2 / Olof Enckell., Wikidata Q113526419
- Doctoral thesis about utopian thinking in Hagar Olsson's Works, 2011. (German with English and Swedish summary)
- Hagar Olsson: The woodcarver and death (Träsnidaren och döden, 1940) University of Wisconsin.