Edita Morris

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Edita Morris (born March 5, 1902 in Örebro , Sweden as Edita Dagmar Emilia Toll ; died March 15, 1988 in Paris ) was a Swedish - American author and political activist against nuclear armament .

Life

Edita Toll comes from a middle-class family. She grew up in the country and in Stockholm . In 1925 she married the journalist Ira Victor Morris (1903–1972), son of the US diplomat Ira Nelson Morris (1875–1942), who came from a Jewish, German immigrant family. They were a polyglot couple who were very wealthy due to the American family fortune and traveled a lot; their son was born in London in 1925 . They took up residence in the "Château de Nesles" in Nesles-la-Gilberde in France. Since the 1930s Editha also lived with the Swedish painter Nils von Dardel (1888–1943). In 1936 and 1939 the literary magazine Story published two of her short stories. They stayed in the USA during the occupation of Europe by the German Reich. There she published her first novel My darling from the Lions in 1943 . Her son Ivan Morris (1925–1976) studied Japanese Studies , was a soldier in the Pacific War and was one of the first US soldiers to set foot on the destroyed Hiroshima .

During the Cold War , Editha and Ira Morris were opponents of US foreign policy and they advocated nuclear disarmament , which is why they also visited the Soviet Union . In 1955 she visited Hiroshima and then wrote the novel The Flowers of Hiroshima , which was published in 1958, received the French Albert Schweitzer Prize in 1961 and has been translated into more than 30 languages. She was active in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . Her other political books are set in the post-colonial Third World of the 1970s: The Solo Dancer (1970) in Indonesia , Love to Vietnam (1968) and A Happy Day (1974) in Vietnam , How keeping, hope fine (1977) in Jamaica and kill the beggars! (1980) on poverty in South America . She wrote two autobiographies.

In Hiroshima, the couple donated a "House of Peace" as a social facility for survivors. Posthumously the "Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture" was set up from her assets.

Works (selection)

  • Birth of an old lady and other short stories . London 1938
  • My darling from the lions . Novel. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. Dedicated to Kay Boyle .
    • To love life dearly: The story of Anna u. Jezza . Translation from the American by Sophie Angermann . Munich: List, 1950
  • Three who loved . Three short stories. New York: Viking Press, 1945
    • Melody of love . Translation from the American by Kurt Wagenseil . Munich: List, 1957
  • Charade . New York: Viking Press, 1948. Dedication to Karin Michaëlis .
  • The Flowers of Hiroshima . New York: Viking Press, 1959. Dedication to Ira Morris.
    • The Flowers of Hiroshima: Novel . Translation from the American by Sophie Angermann . With e. Nachw. By Robert Jungk . Munich: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1960
  • Echo in Asia: a fictional travelogue . London: D. Dobson, 1961.
    • Sampeh . Translation from the American by Sophie Angermann . Munich: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1962
  • The toil and the deed . London, 1963
  • The seeds of Hiroshima . London, 1965
    • The seeds of Hiroshima . Translation from the American by Sophie Angermann . Munich: Süddt. Publisher, 1965
  • Dear me and other tales from my native Sweden . New York, 1967
  • Love to Vietnam: a novel . New York, 1968
    • Love for Vietnam . Novel. Translation from the American by Sophie Angermann . Munich: Süddeutscher Verlag, 1967
  • The solo dancer . New York, 1970
  • Life, wonderful life . New York, 1971
  • A happy day . New York, 1974
  • How keeping, hope fine . Paris, 1975
  • Straitjacket: autobiography . New York: Crown Publishers, 1978
  • Kill a beggar . 1980
  • Seventy years' was . 1980

literature

  • Philipp Klingler: Representation of Japanese society in "The Flowers of Hiroshima" by Edita Morris . [Electronic Resource]. Munich: GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2015 [not viewed here]

Web links

Commons : Edita Morris  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christopher Toll: Edita Morris - a short biography ( memento from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), at the hiroshima foundation
  2. ^ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Nelson Morris (1839–1907) , at jewish virtual library@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jewishvirtuallibrary
  3. ^ Edita Morris: The Flowers of Hiroshima. In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1961 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Toru Kiuchi, Yoshinobu Hakutani: Richard Wright: A Documented Chronology, 1908-1960 . Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013, p. 414
personal data
SURNAME Morris, Edita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Great, Edita Dagmar Emilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-American author and political activist against nuclear armament
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Örebro , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1988
Place of death Paris