Margareta Strömstedt

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Margareta Strömstedt

Margareta Strömstedt (born May 19, 1931 in Lagan ) is a Swedish writer , journalist and translator .

Life

Margareta Strömstedt spent the first eleven years of her life in Lagan, then moved with her family to Torpsbruk and later to Moheda. Her father was pastor of a parish of the Swedish Mission Church . She attended secondary school in Alvesta , studied in Växjö and was trained as a primary school teacher in Lund . She graduated from Lund University with a master's degree in philosophy . In 1953 she married Bo Strömstedt and moved with him to Stockholm . Here she first worked as a journalist for Dagens Nyheter and later as a television producer. Her literary debut took place in 1961 with the fairy tale book Fjärilar i klassen . The following year the imaginative children's book Kom tillbaka, lilla Jenny! . Strömstedt described her growing up in five autobiographical books about Maijken (in the German translation Kerstin). The main character of the novel Församlingen under jorden is a sixteen-year-old boy whose role model is Strömstedt's younger brother, who committed suicide as an adult. In this book she tried to come to terms with the tragedy. Margareta Strömstedt also wrote the text for several picture books such as Lille Morfar . With the youth novel Gå mot solen she tried her hand at a new genre. In 1977 Margareta Strömstedt finished her great biography about Astrid Lindgren , which was also published in Germany.

Works (selection)

  • Fjärilar i classes and andra sagor om mina vänner bland tomtarna , 1961
  • Kom tillbaka, lilla Jenny , 1962
  • Ketchup och bananer , 1969
  • Full tank! , 1969
  • Astrid Lindgren. Pictures of her Life , 1977, ISBN 9783789135163
  • Majken, the nittonde december , 1982
  • Majken, en dag i maj , 1983
  • Julstädningen och döden , 1984
  • Kerstin - Jam in the Snow , 1985, ISBN 9783776704037
  • Kerstin - Fire in the Night , 1987, ISBN 9783776704303
  • På spaning efter en 40-high school graduate , 1989
  • Församlingen under jorden , 1990
  • Majken och skyddsängeln , 1991
  • Boken om Majken , 1993
  • Lille morfar , 1993
  • Fanny och fåglarna , 1995
  • The very longest day , 1996, ISBN 9783407782380
  • And the sky is watching. , 1999, ISBN 9783446186637
  • Natten innan de hanging Ruth Ellis och andra berättelser ur mitt liv , 2006

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writers in Kronobergs Län ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 19, 2010 (Swedish)
personal data
SURNAME Strömstedt, Margareta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lagan (Sweden)