Molly Johnson (writer)

Molly Majbritt Emilia Johnson (1931–2016) was a Swedish novelist from Hofors who was brought up in a working-class family. She made her debut with Pansarkryssaren when she was just 24. Inspired by Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin, it tells the story of a spontaneous rebellion on a ship travelling to an industrial town in Sweden and has been described as a "modern classic". Apart from a children's book in 1956, it took thirty years before she published her second novel Morbror Anders in 1884. Johnson also contributed articles to newspapers and journals.

About the author

Molly Johnson (writer)

Language of works

swedish

Born/died

1931 — 2016

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