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Ivar Lo-Johansson
Ivar Lo-Johansson (23 February 1901 – 11 April 1990) was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school. His autobiographical 1979 memoir, "Pubertet" ("Puberty"), won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1979.
Biography.
Lo-Johansson was born in Ösmo in a family of bound (unfree) agricultural labourers. He wrote over 50 proletarian novels and short-stories, all of which carried vivid portrayals of working-class people. He described the situation
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Twentieth century 1930s.
- "Bock i örtagård" – Fritiof Nilsson Piraten (1933)
- "Godnatt jord" – Ivar Lo-Johansson (1933)
- "Kvinnor och äppelträd" – Moa Martinson (1933)
- "Nu var det 1914" – Eyvind Johnson (1934)
- "Here's Your Life" – Eyvind Johnson (1935)
- "Flowering Nettle" – Harry Martinson (1935)
- "Kungsgatan" – Ivar Lo-Johansson (1935)