Hagar Olsson

Hagar Olsson
Born16 September 1893
Kustavi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died21 February 1978
Helsinki, Finland
OccupationWriter, literary critic, translator
Literary movementModernism

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 to Karl Sixtus Olsson and Anna Erika Holmberg. She attended The Women's School in Viborg, graduating in 1913. She pursued further studies at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki from 1913 to 1914 and also studied at the University of Helsinki.[2]

In 1922, she edited an avant-garde literary magazine, Ultra.[3] She also contributed to another avant-garde magazine Quosego.[4]

Olsson received several awards throughout her career, including the SLS Prize in 1929, the State Literature Prize in 1933, 1940, 1949, and 1961, the Granberg Prize in 1929, 1931, and 1936, and the Tollanderska Prize in 1950.[5] In 1965, she was awarded the Eino Leino Prize.[6] She was also honored with an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 1969.

She died, aged 84, in Helsinki.

Works

  • Lars Thorman och döden (1916)[7]
  • Själarnas ansikten (1917)
  • Kvinnan och nåden (1919)
  • Ny generation (1925)
  • Mr Jeremias söker en illusion (1926)
  • Hjärtats pantomim (1928)
  • S.O.S. (Save our souls) (1928)
  • På Kanaanexpressen (1929)
  • Det blåser upp till storm (1930)
  • Det blåa undret (1932)
  • Chitambo (1933)
  • Arbetare i natten (1935)
  • Träsnidaren och döden (1940)
  • Rövaren och jungfrun (1944)
  • Hurskaat herjaajat (1946)
  • Jag lever (1948)
  • Kinesisk utflykt (1949)
  • Kärlekens död (1952)
  • Tidiga fanfarer och annan dagskritik (1953)
  • Lumisota (1939)
  • Hemkomst (1961)
  • Tidig dramatik (1962)
  • Möte med kära gestalter (1963)
  • Tidig prosa (1963)
  • Drömmar (1966)
  • Ridturen och andra berättelser (1968)

References

  1. ^ "Olsson, Hagar". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Olsson, Hagar". Writers in Finland 1809-1916 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1993. pp. 557–560. ISBN 951-717-714-3.
  3. ^ Fredrik Hertzberg; Vesa Haapala; Janna Kantola (2012). "The Finland-Swedish Avant-Garde Moments". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Vol. 28. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. p. 448. doi:10.1163/9789401208918_031. ISBN 9789401208918.
  4. ^ Stefan Nygård (2012). "The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928)". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Vol. 28. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. p. 341. doi:10.1163/9789401208918_022. ISBN 9789401208918.
  5. ^ "Olsson, Hagar". Writers in Finland 1809-1916 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1993. pp. 557–560. ISBN 951-717-714-3.
  6. ^ Kustantajat.fi Archived 30 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Olsson, Hagar". Writers in Finland 1809-1916 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura och Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland. 1993. pp. 557–560. ISBN 951-717-714-3.

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