Sophie Elkan
Sophie Elkan , née Salomon (born January 3, 1853 in Gothenburg , † April 5, 1921 there ), was a Swedish writer . In 1872 she married the bookseller Nathan Elkan in Stockholm , but became a widow in 1879.
Her literary debut was the collection of short stories Dur och Moll ("Major and Minor"), which appeared in 1889. She first used the pseudonym Rust Roest (derived from a Flemish proverb meaning "The calm rusts").
Well-known early works by Sophie Elkan are the novels Rika flickor (“Reiche Mädchen”, 1893), Säfve, Kurt & Co. (1894) and the short story collection Skiftande stämningar (“Changing moods”, 1896).
The breakthrough came in 1899 with the great historical novel John Hall. En historia från det gamla Göteborg ("John Hall. A story from old Gothenburg") about the Swedish entrepreneur John Hall the Elder. J. (1771-1830). It became Sophie Elkan's best-known work and the first to appear under her own name.
From 1899 to 1900 she went on a long trip abroad with her close friend Selma Lagerlöf , u. a. to Palestine and Egypt. She processed the impressions of this trip in the works Drömmen om österlandet (“The Dream of the Orient”, 1901) and Från eastan och västan (“From the East and the West”, 1908). Selma Lagerlöf dedicated her novel Jerusalem to Sophie Elkan , in which she processed the impressions of the trip to Palestine.
Sophie Elkan became particularly famous for her historical novels Konungen. En sannsaga ("The King. A true fairy tale", 1904) and Konungen. En landsflykt ("Der König. Eine Landesflucht", 1906), in which she describes the fate of King Gustav IV Adolf , and Anckarström (1910), who deals with Johan Jacob Anckarström , the murderer of King Gustav III. , deals.
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| SURNAME | Elkan, Sophie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salomon, Sophie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gothenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1921 |
| Place of death | Gothenburg |