Eyvind Johnson
Swedish writer
Died when: 76 years 27 days (912 months)Star Sign: Leo
Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer.Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
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