Astri Birgitta Kjelln, born on September 11, 1929 in Gothenburg, Sweden, was a Swedish novelist, essayist, and poet  who was elected to the Swedish Academy in the early 1990s.
Birgitta Trotzig (11 September 1929  14 May 2011) was a Swedish writer who was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1993. She was one of Sweden's most celebrated authors, and wrote prose fiction and non-fiction, as well as prose poetry. 
