The Nobel Prize in Literature 1974
Awarded on: 1974-10-03
"for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom"
Eyvind Johnson
Born: 1900-07-29 in Svartbjörnsbyn, Sweden
Gender: male
Field: Swedish writer (1900–1976)
Biography
Eyvind Johnson 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.