Ebba Witt-Brattström

Ebba Witt - Brattström ( born 1953 in Stockholm) is Swedish literary scholar.

Witt Brattström is a professor of literature with a focus on gender at Södertörn University College near Stockholm and a well-known feminist. She was in the seventies, a member of the Swedish feminist organization Grupp 8, and in 2005 a co-founder of the political party Feministiskt initiative. Shortly thereafter, Witt Brattström distanced because of their strong leftist and radical feminist tendencies of the organization.

Witt Brattström doctorate on the Swedish author Moa Martinson ( Moa Martinson: skrift och drift i trettiotalet ). Stockholm University in 1988, she has written, among other writings on Bridget of Sweden, Victoria Benedictsson and Edith Södergran and in 2010 a history of feminist movement in Sweden, Å alla kara systrar (Oh, all dear sisters ), published. In addition, they translated the novel The Daughters Egalias by Gerd Brant Berg from Norwegian.

Witt Brattström was from the winter semester 2008 to spring semester 2011 Dag Hammarskjöld Visiting Professor at the Northern European Studies at Humboldt University Berlin.

Ebba Witt - Brattström is married to Horace Engdahl since 1989, the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. They have three sons together; Witt Brattström has a son from a previous marriage.

During the Second World War, her parents fled to Sweden. Her father was a German anti-Nazi, her mother came from Estonia. After her parents divorced, she lived with her ​​mother.