Marianne Fredriksson

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Marianne Fredriksson (born March 28, 1927 as Marianne Persson in Gothenburg , † February 11, 2007 in Österskär, Österåker municipality near Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer and journalist .

life and work

The daughter of a shipbuilder and a housewife grew up in a proletarian milieu. After attending secondary school, she worked from 1947, first as a proofreader, and later as a journalist for the local newspaper Göteborgstidningen . Here she met her husband Sven, whom she married in Genoa in 1949 .

When her two daughters were two and six years old, Marianne Fredriksson moved to Stockholm in 1962 and worked as editor-in-chief for the interior design magazine Allt i hemmet . She founded the very successful magazines Vi föräldrar (We Parents) and Allt om mat (Everything about food), for which she later wrote. Between 1974 and 1988 she was also editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet .

Since her late writing debut in 1980 with Evas bok (Eva), she has published 14 novels, including the world bestsellers Simon och ekarna (Simon) and Anna, Hanna och Johanna (Hanna's daughters). In total, her books have been translated into 47 languages, published in 150 countries and sold more than 17 million times worldwide. She found a large number of readers outside her home country, especially in Denmark , the Netherlands and Germany .

In Germany, among other things, the 1998 novel Simon was particularly successful with 800,000 copies sold. The book, with 2.5 million copies sold worldwide, was filmed in 2011 under the eponymous title Simon . It was the first film adaptation of one of her books. The drama in which Jan Josef Liefers played a German Jew received 13 nominations for the Swedish Guldbagge film award in 2012 , including 2 awards.

Her first five works and her 1997 book Enligt Maria Magdalena (Maria Magdalena), for which she conducted an intensive source study, revolve around biblical motifs. Later on, with emotive family and generational novels from the perspective of women, she mainly reached a female audience. In her book Älskade barn (Beloved Daughter) she deals with violence against women inside and outside of marriage. One of the central themes in her novels is friendship, which often turns out to be more permanent than love.

Marianne Fredriksson died of a heart attack at the age of 79 .

bibliography

Novels

  • 1980 - Evas bok (German Eva , 2001)
  • 1981 - Kains bok (German Abel's brother , 2001)
  • 1983 - Noreas saga (German Norea's story , 2001)
  • 1985 - Simon och ekarna (German Simon , 1998) ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from November 2, 1998 to March 21, 1999 )
  • 1988 - Den som vandrar om natten ( Eng . Marcus and Eneides , 2000)
  • 1989 - Gåtan (German Lillemor's Riddle , 2003)
  • 1990 - Syndafloden (Eng. The Flood , 1991)
  • 1992 - Blindgång (German Sofia and Anders , 2001)
  • 1994 - Anna, Hanna och Johanna (German Hanna's daughters , 1997, No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 1997 and 1998 )
  • 1997 - Enligt Maria Magdalena (German Maria Magdalena , 1999)
  • 1999 - Flyttfåglar (German Inge and Mira , 2000)
  • 2001 - Älskade barn (German beloved daughter , 2002)
  • 2004 - Skilda verkligheter (Eng. The years with Jan , 2005)
  • 2006 - Ondskans leende (German Stina's decision , 2006)

Further publications

  • 1993 - Om kvinnor vore kloka skulle världen stanna (selection of her journalistic work)
  • 1995 - De elva sammansvurna (non-fiction book on the subject of group psychology, together with her daughter Ann Fredriksson)
  • 2002 - Mein Schweden (German original publication)

See also

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personal data
SURNAME Fredriksson, Marianne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Persson, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2007
Place of death Österskär , Österåker municipality