Gunnel Vallquist (19 June 1918 – 11 January 2016) was a Swedish writer and translator. Born in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, Vallquist was elected a member of the

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in 1982. Vallquist was a member of the

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and wrote several essays on Catholic religion in contemporary times, among them reports from the

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. She translated the seven-piece novel ''

In Search of Lost Time ''In Search of Lost Time'' (french: À la recherche du temps perdu), first translated into English as ''Remembrance of Things Past'', and sometimes referred to in French as ''La Recherche'' (''The Search''), is a novel in seven volumes by French ...

'' by

Marcel Proust Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (; ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel ''In Search of Lost Time'' (''À la recherche du temps perdu''; with the previous Eng ...

into Swedish (1965–1982).

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* Något att leva för (1956) * Giorgio La Pira : borgmästare och profet (1957) * Ett bländande mörker (1958) * Till dess dagen gryr : anteckningar 1950–1958 (1959) * Vägar till Gud (1960) * Den oförstådda kärleken (1961) * Helgonens svar (1963) * Dagbok från Rom. D. 1, Journalistminnen från Vatikankonciliet (1964) * Dagbok från Rom. D. 2, Reformation i Vatikanen? (1964) * Dagbok från Rom. D. 3, Kyrkligt, världsligt, kvinnligt (1965) * Dagbok från Rom. D. 4, Uppbrott (1966) * Kyrkor i uppbrott (1968) * Interkommunion? : synpunkter på en kristen livsfråga (1969) * Följeslagare (1975) * Morgon och afton (1976) * Sökare och siare : essayer (1982) * Anders Österling : inträdestal i Svenska akademien (1982) * Steg på vägen (1983) * Notiser om Franska akademien (1985) * Helena Nyblom (1987) * Den romerske kuries metoder (1993) * Katolska läroår : Uppsala-Paris-Rom (1995) * Vad väntar vi egentligen på? : texter om kristen enhet 1968–2002 * Guds ord till människorna : skrift och tradition enligt Dei Verbum (2007); ''co-authors: Rainer Carls & Birger Olsson'' * Texter i urval (2008) * Herre, låt mig få brinna : anteckningar 1950–1958 (2009)

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