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Arbetarnas Bildningsförbund
Arbetarnas bildningsförbund (ABF) (the Workers' Educational Association) is the educational section of the Swedish labour movement. ABF conducts seminars, classes and study circles on a variety of subjects, including workshops, languages and music. History ABF was founded on 16 November 1912, by the Swedish Social Democratic Party and some of the trade unions. Today, the main members of ABF are the Social Democrats and the Left Party. There are ABF locations in almost every Swedish town and several in the major cities. Its headquarters are on Olof Palmes gata, near Sveavägen street in Stockholm. In Gothenburg, the ABF building is on Olof Palmes Gata, near Järntorget square. Moa Award The Moa Award ( sv, Moa-priset) is an annual literary prize awarded jointly by ABF and the Moa Martinson Society to a person who writes in the spirit of Moa Martinson. The prize has been awarded since 1989. Recipients *1989 – Mary Andersson *1990 – Aino Trosell *1991 – Ebb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governmental Organization
A government or state agency, sometimes an appointed commission, is a permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an administration. There is a notable variety of agency types. Although usage differs, a government agency is normally distinct both from a department or ministry, and other types of public body established by government. The functions of an agency are normally executive in character since different types of organizations (''such as commissions'') are most often constituted in an advisory role—this distinction is often blurred in practice however, it is not allowed. A government agency may be established by either a national government or a state government within a federal system. Agencies can be established by legislation or by executive powers. The autonomy, independence, and accountability of government agencies also vary widely. History Early exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olof Palmes Gata, Stockholm
Olov (or Olof) is a Swedish form of Olav/Olaf, meaning "ancestor's descendant". A common short form of the name is ''Olle''. The name may refer to: *Per-Olov Ahrén (1926–2004), Swedish clergyman, bishop of Lund from 1980 to 1992 *Per-Olov Brasar (born 1950), retired professional ice hockey forward *Olov Englund (born 1983), Swedish bandy player *Per Olov Enquist (1934–2020), one of Sweden's internationally best known authors *Olle Hagnell (1924–2011), Swedish psychiatrist *Karl Olov Hedberg (1923–2007), botanist, taxonomist, author, professor at Uppsala University *Olle Hellbom (1925–1982), Swedish film director *Per Olov Jansson (1920–2019), Finnish photographer *Olof Johansson (born 1937), Swedish politician *Per-Olov Kindgren (born 1956), Swedish musician, composer, guitarist and music teacher *Olov Lambatunga, Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1198–1206 *Sven-Olov Lawesson (1926–1988), Swedish chemist known for his popularization of Lawesson's reagent within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Lugn
Gunhild Bricken Kristina Lugn (; 14November 1948 – 9 May 2020)Jones, Evelyn.Författaren Kristina Lugn är död", Dagens Nyheter 9 May 2020. Accessed 9 May 2020. was a Swedish poet and dramatist and member of the Swedish Academy. Early life Kristina Lugn was born in Tierp and grew up in Skövde where her father, Major-General Robert Lugn, served in the Skaraborg Regiment (armoured), Skaraborg Armoured Regiment, and her mother, Brita-Stina, was a lecturer. Career Kristina Lugn published eight collections of poems from 1972 with her debut ''Om jag inte''. She also wrote drama and appeared in other media, for instance hosting the show Oförutsett which was broadcast on Sveriges Television, SVT in 1987. She hosted the show together with Jörn Donner and Bert Karlsson. After the death of actor Allan Edwall in 1997, Lugn assumed the leadership of his small independent theatre Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm, where she also staged several of her own plays. She was art d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Lidman
Sara Adéla Lidman (30December 192317June 2004) was a Swedish writer. Early life Born in Missenträsk, a village in present Skellefteå Municipality, Lidman was raised in the Västerbotten region of northern Sweden. She studied at the University of Uppsala, where her studies were interrupted when she contracted tuberculosis. She achieved her first great success with the novel (''The Tar Still''). In this work and in her second novel (The Cloudberry Field), she explores themes of alienation and isolation. Her early novels are focused on the difficult conditions facing poor farmers in the northern Swedish province of Västerbotten during the nineteenth century. Career Sara Lidman is arguably one of the most important writers of the Swedish language in the twentieth century. This is especially so because of her innovative method of combining spoken vernaculars with Biblical language in a way closely tied to a certain kind of popular imaginary, while also integrating the worldl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Majgull Axelsson
Majgull Axelsson (born 1947 in Landskrona) is a Swedish journalist and writer. She grew up in Nässjö and completed her education in journalism. Life and career Her first book was non-fiction, and focused on the problems of child prostitution and street children in third world, and poverty in Sweden. ''April witch'' is her second novel, and one that was well received in Sweden. With over 400,000 copies sold in hardcover, it landed on several bestseller lists for months and received important Swedish literature awards including the Moa Martinsson Prize and Jörgen Eriksson's Prize. It addresses themes of mother-daughter relationships, competition between women, and the failures of Sweden's postwar welfare state.Dagens Nyheter 14 november 1971 sid.42 Axelsson lives with her husband on Lidingö. Bibliography Non-fiction * 1986 – ''Our Smallest Brothers'' (''Våra minsta bröder'') * 1989 – ''Rosario Is Dead'' (''Rosario är död'') * 1991 – ''They Kill Us'' (''De d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Thorvall
Kerstin Thorvall (12 August 1925 in Eskilstuna – 9 April 2010) was an influential Swedish novelist.O'Mahony, Paul. (10 April 2010)Outspoken author Kerstin Thorvall dies '' The Local'' Thorvall was born in Eskilstuna on 12 August 1925. She worked in illustration first. Her first book was ''Boken till dig'' (A book for you) in 1959, which proved popular with young adult readers. Her work at times was the subject of controversy, most marked by her 1976 novel ''Det mest förbjudna'' (which translates to "The Most Forbidden", but published in English translation as "Forbidden Fruit"(19 April 2006)Forbidden Fruit (review) ''The Scotsman'') which concerned a middle-age woman with a high sex-drive. That novel was adapted into a three-episode television series on Sveriges Television in 2016, with Swedish actress Cilla Thorell playing Thorvall.Svensson, Britta (8 April 2016)Dags att ta itu med Kerstin Thorvalls storhet som författare ''Expressen'' (in Swedish)Olsson, Lotta (30 March 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Ekman
Kerstin Lillemor Ekman, née Hjorth, (born 27 August 1933) is a Swedish novelist. Life and career Kerstin Ekman wrote a string of successful detective novels (among others ''De tre små mästarna'' and ''Dödsklockan'') but later went on to psychological and social themes. Among her later works is ''Mörker och blåbärsris'' (1972) (set in northern Sweden) and '' Händelser vid vatten'' (1993), in which she returned to the form of the detective novel. Ekman was elected member of the Swedish Academy in 1978, but left the Academy in 1989, together with Lars Gyllensten and Werner Aspenström, due to the debate following death threats posed to Salman Rushdie. In 2018, the Academy granted her resignation, the rules of membership having changed to allow members to resign. In 1998, she was awarded the Litteris et Artibus medal. Partial bibliography :''See the article on Swedish Wikipedia for a complete bibliography.'' * '' Blackwater'' (''Händelser vid vatten'', 1993), tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerstin Engman
Kerstin is a female German and Swedish given name; it is the Scandinavian version of Christina. Notable persons with this name include: *Kerstin Alm (born 1949), Finnish politician from the Åland Islands *Kerstin Anderson (born 1994), American stage actress and singer, most noted for portraying Maria von Trapp in the 2015 US national tour of ''The Sound of Music'' *Kerstin Andreae (born 1968), German politician (Alliance '90/The Greens) * Kerstin-Maria Aronsson (born 1937), Swedish politician *Kjerstin Dellert (born 1925), Swedish soprano opera singer *Kerstin Ekman (born 1933), Swedish novelist *Kerstin Garefrekes (born 1979), German footballer *Kerstin Granlund, created the Swedish comedy groups Galenskaparna och After Shave *Kerstin Müller (born 1969), German rower *Kerstin Hilldén (born 1988), Swedish musical theatre actress * Kerstin Ott (born 1982), German musician *Kerstin Fritzl (born 1988), Austrian false imprisonment survivor *Kerstin Thorborg (1896–1970), Swedish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebba Witt-Brattström
Ebba Witt-Brattström (; born 1 June 1953) is a Swedish scholar in comparative literature. She is Professor of Literature and head of department at Södertörn University outside Stockholm, and a well-known feminist. Witt-Brattström completed her PhD with a dissertation on the Swedish author Moa Martinson (''Moa Martinson: skrift och drift i trettiotalet'') at Stockholm University in 1988. She has since written a number of texts on St. Bridget of Sweden, Victoria Benedictsson and Edith Södergran (among others). She also translated the novel ''Egalia's Daughters'' by Gerd Brantenberg into Swedish. In 2010 she published a history of the feminist movement in Sweden, Å alla kära systrar'' (For all dear sisters). Witt-Brattström was the Dag Hammarskjöld Visiting Professor at the Department for Northern European Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2008.HU Berlin personal web page From 2012 she is Professor of Nordic Literature at Helsinki University. In the 1970s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aino Trosell
Aino may refer to: * Aino (given name), a first name in Finland and Estonia * Ainu people (sometimes called ''Aino''), an ethnic group of northern Japan * Ainu language (also sometimes called ''Aino''), the language of the Ainu people * Aino, Nagasaki, Japan, a former town, merged in 2005 into the city of Unzen * Mount Aino, a mountain in Japan * Sony Ericsson Aino, a telephone Arts and entertainment * ''Aino'' (Kajanus), a symphonic poem for male chorus and orchestra by Robert Kajanus * Aino (mythology), a figure in the Finnish national epic poem Kalevala * ''Aino'' (opera), a 1912 opera by Erkki Melartin based on the epic poem above * Minako or Mina Aino, alter ego of Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon franchise Train stations * Aino Station (Hyōgo), a train station in Sanda, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan * Aino Station (Shizuoka), a train station in Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan See also * Ainos (other) * Ainu (other) Ainu or Aynu may refer to: *Ainu people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Andersson
Mary Gunvor Irene Andersson (), was a Swedish author and playwright. Her work was primarily about the issues effecting the lives of women and the poor. Biography Born as one of seven children to a working-class family in Tunaberg in 1929, Andersson spent most of her childhood in an orphanage in the Sorgenfri (literally "care free") district of Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat .... She suffered from anaemia at a young age, and started working at the age of 13, with her experiences of working in a mustard factory later forming the basis of her 1991 book ''Dåliga mänskor'' (Bad People), which was later performed as a play at the Malmö Music Theatre in 1999. Andersson made her debut as a playwright in 1977 with the play ''Maria från Borstahusen'' (Maria fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svenska Dagbladet
''Svenska Dagbladet'' (, "The Swedish Daily News"), abbreviated SvD, is a daily newspaper published in Stockholm, Sweden. History and profile The first issue of ''Svenska Dagbladet'' appeared on 18 December 1884. During the beginning of the 1900s the paper was one of the right-wing publications in Stockholm. Ivar Anderson is among its former editors-in-chief who assumed the post in 1940. The same year ''Svenska Dagbladet'' was sold by Trygger family to the Enterprise Fund which had been established by fourteen Swedish businessmen to secure the ownership of the paper. The paper is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region. Its subscribers are concentrated in the capital, but it is distributed in most of Sweden. The paper was one of the critics of the Prime Minister Olof Palme, and in December 1984 it asked him to resign from the office following his interview published in ''Hufvud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
