Dagny Carlsson

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Dagny Carlsson (2013)

Dagny Carlsson (born May 8, 1912 in Kristianstad , Sweden , as Dagny Valborg Eriksson ) is a Swedish blogger, known as the oldest blogger in the world.

Life

When she was 17, her father died, and her mother was left with her and three younger siblings. She put off her desire to become a teacher and took up a job as a seamstress in a factory. She later completed an apprenticeship at a textile institute in Norrköping .

At the age of 99, Carlsson first took a computer course. In 2012, at the age of 100, she opened her blog, Blogga Med Mig! (Blog with me!) By signing her posts with “Bojan”. She also teaches other seniors how to use the computer.

In 2015, Åsa Blanck's documentary Livet börjar vid 100 (Life begins at 100) about Dagny Carlsson was released on Swedish TV ( SVT ) . Her main role in this film made her blog popular, and interviews with and reports about Carlsson have appeared in numerous newspapers, television programs and websites. She got a supporting role in the film The Hundred and One Year Old Who Didn't Pay the Bill and Disappeared , which was released in 2016 in Scandinavia. In 2016, Carlsson published her autobiography with Helen Bjurberg .

When asked about her recipe for a long life, she replied: “good genes and curiosity ”.

Before Carlsson, other people were known as (then) the "world's oldest blogger":

  • Olive Riley, Australian, born October 20, 1899, whose life story was portrayed in a documentary by Mike Rubbo, wrote on her blog through June 26, 2008.
  • María Amelia López, born in Muxia, Spain, in 1911, wrote her first blog entry on her 95th birthday when her grandson “gave her a weblog”. López lived in Muxia until 2009.

Prices

In 2013 she won the title Veckans svensk (Swede of the Week) in the TV show of the same name directed by Pär Lernström. In 2015 the newspaper Seniors named her årets senior (Senior of the Year). In 2019 she became årets guldambassadör ( Gold Ambassador of the Year) in Kristianstad.

Publications

  • Dagny Carlsson, Helen Bjurberg: Livet enligt Dagny: i huvudet på en 104-åring , Bokförlaget Forum, 2016, ISBN 9789137149455

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dagny Carlsson: Life Begins at 100. Al Jazeera , September 28, 2017, accessed on September 30, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Lars Landström: 102 år och egen blogg. In: www.allehanda.se. March 21, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 (Swedish).
  3. ^ A b World's Oldest Blogger is 104 - and Still Going Strong. In: simplesite.com. Retrieved September 30, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Reference to a blog opened on June 1, 2012: Fortsättning på min blogg från 2012 (blog entry from December 27, 2012). December 27, 2012, accessed September 30, 2017 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Life Begins at 100. In: svtsales.com. Retrieved September 30, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Livet börjar vid hundra. SVT, June 25, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ a b Henrik Nordell: 106-åriga Dagny årets ambassadör i Kristianstad. In: www.svt.se. April 11, 2019, accessed July 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Lina Lindkvist: ”Nyfikenhet ger dig ett långt liv”. In: Aftonbladet. March 16, 2015, accessed September 30, 2017 (Swedish).
  9. ↑ Report on Olive Riley. Saeed Ahmed: 'World's oldest blogger' dies at 108. CNN, July 14, 2008, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  10. ^ Report on María Amelia López. Matthew Weaver: Last post. 'World's oldest blogger' logs off in Spanish home town, aged 97. In: The Guardian. May 22, 2009, accessed September 30, 2017 .
  11. ^ Veckans svensk med Eurojackpot. In: tv4.se. Accessed October 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Grattis Dagny, you är årets senior! SVT, January 28, 2016, accessed September 30, 2017 (Swedish).
personal data
SURNAME Carlsson, Dagny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eriksson, Dagny Valborg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish author and blogger
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kristianstad , Sweden