Ebba Witt-Brattström
Ebba Witt-Brattström (* 1953 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish literary scholar.
Life
Witt-Brattström is professor of literary studies with a focus on gender at Södertörn University of Applied Sciences near Stockholm and a well-known feminist . She was a member of the Swedish feminist organization Grupp 8 in the 1970s and a co-founder of the political party Feministiskt initiativ in 2005 . Shortly afterwards, Witt-Brattström distanced himself from the organization because of its strongly left-wing and radical feminist tendencies.
Witt-Brattström did her doctorate on the Swedish author Moa Martinson ( Moa Martinson: skrift och drift i trettiotalet ) at the University of Stockholm in 1988. She has written about Birgitta of Sweden , Victoria Benedictsson and Edith Södergran and in 2010 a history of the feminist Movement in Sweden, Å alla kära systrar (Oh all dear sisters), published. In addition, she translated Gerd Brantenberg's novel The Daughters of Egalias from Norwegian.
From the winter semester 2008 to the spring semester 2011, Witt-Brattström was Dag Hammarskjöld visiting professor at the Northern Europe Institute of the Humboldt University in Berlin .
Ebba Witt-Brattström was married to Horace Engdahl from 1989 to 2014 , who was permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy from 1999 to 2009 . They have three sons together; Witt-Brattström has a son from a previous marriage.
Her parents fled to Sweden during the Second World War. Her father was a German Nazi opponent, her mother came from Estonia . After her parents divorced, she lived with her mother.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ebba Witt-Brattström in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Nationalencyklopedin (Swedish National Encyclopedia), entry Ebba Witt-Brattström, [1] , read May 27, 2010
- ^ Ebba Witt-Brattström , at HU Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Witt-Brattström, Ebba |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |