translator, novelist, journalist, writer, poet, film director, film screenwriter
1900 – 1976
Eyvind Johnson was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
All Quotes by Eyvind Johnson
“And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.”