Hagar Olsson
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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[edit]
- ^ "Olsson, Hagar". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kustantajat.fi Archived 30 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading[edit]
Media related to Hagar Olsson at Wikimedia Commons- Olof Enckell (1949), Den unga Hagar Olsson : studier i finlandssvensk modernism. 2 / Olof Enckell., Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (in Swedish), Helsinki: Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, ISSN 0039-6842, 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.
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