Inger Maria Alfvén (24 February 1940 – 26 July 2022) was a Swedish author and sociologist from Solna in

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Biography

Alfvén became a sociologist in 1964 and worked as a counselor. Her books depict existential and moral conflicts such as inherited gender roles, love, lifelong friendship, and loneliness. She had her big breakthrough with the novel ''S/Y Glädjen'' in 1979. In 2002, Alfvén made her debut as a playwright with the play The ''Rainbow's Root'' (''Regnbågens rot''), which is about three sisters' lives and development during the last decades of the last century. Her books consisted often of what moves through human consciousness.

Family

Alfvén was married for the first time in 1962–1980 to medical licentiate Mikael von Heijne (born 1941), the second time from 1985 to 1991 to the author Lars-Olof Franzén (born 1936), and the third time from 1993 to the psychiatrist Johan Cullberg (born 1934). She was the daughter of physics professor and

Nobel laureate The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make out ...

Hannes Alfvén Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now ...

and a grandniece of composer Hugo Alfvén.

Works

Writing

* 1964 – ''Vinbergssnäckan'' * 1969 – ''Tusentals äpplen'' * 1971 – ''Lena-Bell'' * 1972 – ''Ta ner månen'' * 1976 – ''Städpatrullen'' * 1977 – ''Dotter till en dotter'' * 1979 – ''S/Y Glädjen'' (filmed in 1989) * 1981 – ''Arvedelen'' * 1984 – ''Ur kackerlackors levnad'' * 1986 – ''Lyckans galosch'' * 1989 – ''Judiths teater (also filmed as a TV series, Judith)'' * 1992 – ''Elefantens öga'' * 1992 – ''Kvinnornas svarta bok'' * 1992 – ''Sex kvinnors lusta'' * 1994 – ''En moder har fyra döttrar'' * 1997 – ''Berget dit fjärilarna flyger för att dö'' * 1998 – ''När jag tänker på pengar'' * 1999 – ''Det blå skåpet'' * 2002 – ''Någon kom i båten'' (written and filmed in 2002 as ''Vier Töchter'') '''' * 2004 – ''Livets vatten'' * 2006 – ''Mandelkärnan'' * 2009 – ''När förnuftet sover'' * 2012 – ''Allt vi aldrig gjorde med varandra'' * 2015 – ''Berör mig inte, berör mig'' * 2019 – ''Tvilling''

Producing

* 2011 – ''When God Is Watching Us''

Awards

* 1978 – TCO Culture Prize * 2001 – Signe Ekblad-Eldh Prize * 2006 – The Nine Special Prize Society * 2012 – Moa Prize * 2012 – Eric and Ingrid Lilliehöök's scholarship

References

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