Hilma Angered Strandberg
Hilma Kristina Elisabet Angered-Strandberg (born June 10, 1855 in Stockholm , † January 23, 1927 in Meran ) was a Swedish writer .
Life
Angered-Strandberg was born as the daughter of Justice Council and member of the Svenska Academies Carl Gustaf Strandberg (1825–1874) and Eva Helleday (1830–1869). She studied at a regular Stockholm school, but later took private lessons at EM Rappe in Småland . In 1876 she completed her training as a telegraph operator and worked in this profession from 1883 to 1888 in Fjällbacka . During this time she wrote so-called correspondence to the newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning . From 1884 to 1885, when she was released from her actual work, she worked for this newspaper. Angered-Strandberg married the artist Hjalmar Angered and emigrated with him to the USA . There she spent the years 1888 to 1894 and wrote mostly correspondence to Sweden, mostly to Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning . At the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 she was responsible for the presentation of the society Handarbetets Vänner (Friends of Handicraft), whose aim was the development of Swedish textile art. At the same time she worked there as a correspondent for Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning . From 1904 to 1914 she went on long study trips to Switzerland and Italy , about which she reported in several Swedish newspapers and magazines.
Her debut book was a collection of poetry published under the pseudonym Lilian. Under the same pseudonym she began to write novellas that appeared in the Gothenburg magazine Illustreradt året om . Her early, rather stencil-like works were romantically influenced. During her Swedish-American life, she found grateful motives for some strange, pessimistic descriptions like in Den nya världen (The New World) and described the conditions of her home country in novels and short stories. Double standards and dogmatism are criticized in her books, for example in the novel På Prärien (Through the Prairie) and in the autobiography Lydia Vik .
Works
Novellas
- Västerut , 1888
- Från det gamla och nya lands , 1900
- Under söderns sol ( travel novels ), 1905
- Ödesglimtar , 1905
- Trollmark , 1907
- På bygator och alpvägar ( Travel Novels ), 1915
Novels
- Den nya världen 1898
- På prairies , 1899
- Lydia Vik , 1904
- Hemma , 1912
- Barbarens son , 1924
Prizes and awards
- Grand Prix of Nine 1916
Web links
- Johannes Rudberg: Homepage Fjällbacka about Hilma Angered-Strandberg. Göteborgs-Posten, June 7, 1998, accessed April 11, 2014 (Swedish).
Individual evidence
- ^ Store Norske Leksikon (norweg.), Accessed October 15, 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angered Strandberg, Hilma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angered-Strandberg, Hilma Kristina Elisabeth (full name); Angered-Strandberg, Hilma; Strandberg, Hilma Angered; Angered-Strandberg, Kristina Elisabet; Lilian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1927 |
| Place of death | Meran |