Marianne Fredriksson

Marianne Fredriksson ( born March 28, 1927 as Marianne Persson in Gothenburg, † February 11, 2007 in Österskär in Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer and journalist.

Life and work

The daughter of a shipbuilder and a housewife grew up in a proletarian milieu. After the high school visit, she worked from 1947 first as a copy editor, and later as a journalist for the local newspaper Göteborgstidningen. Here she met her husband Sven, whom she married in Genoa in 1949.

When her two daughters were two and six years old, Marianne Fredriksson 1962 moved to Stockholm and worked hemmet as editor in chief for the establishment magazine Allt i. The highly successful magazines Vi Föräldrar ( We parents) and Allt om mat (all about the food ) for which she wrote later, she established itself Between 1974 and 1988 she was also managing editor of the daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

Since her late literary debut in 1980 with bok Eve (Eve), she published 14 novels, including the international bestseller Simon och ekarna (Simon ) and Anna, Hanna och Johanna ( Hanna's daughters ). Altogether her books have been translated into 47 languages ​​, published in 150 countries and sold more than 17 million times. A great many readers found them outside their home country, mainly in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.

In Germany, among others, the 1998's novel Simon with 800,000 copies sold, was particularly successful. The world's sold 2.5 million copies book was made ​​into a film with the same title Simon 2011. It was the first film adaptation of one of her books. The drama, in which Jan Josef Liefers played a German Jew, was in 2012 honored with 13 nominations for the Swedish Film Award Guldbagge, where he received two awards.

Your first five plants and their 1997 book published Enligt Mary Magdalene ( Mary Magdalene ), for which she operated an intensive study of the sources, revolve around biblical themes. Later was reached mainly a female audience with emotional family and generational novels from the perspective of women. In her book Älskade barn ( Beloved daughter ) she treats violence against women inside and outside of marriage. One of the central themes in her novels is the friendship that often proves to be more resistant than love.

Marianne Fredriksson died at the age of 79 of a heart attack.

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