Background
Johnson was born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson in Svartbjörnsbyn village in Överluleå parish, near the town of Boden in Norrbotten. In Boden they show the small house where he grew up.
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Johnson was born Olof Edvin Verner Jonsson in Svartbjörnsbyn village in Överluleå parish, near the town of Boden in Norrbotten. In Boden they show the small house where he grew up.
His most noted works include Here"s Your Life (1935), Return to Ithaca (1946) and The Days of His Grace (1960). The choice of Johnson and Harry Martinson as Nobel Prize winners in 1974 was controversial as both were on the Nobel panel themselves and Graham Greene, Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow and Jorge Luis Borges were the favoured candidates that year.
His most noted works include Here's Your Life (1935), Return to Ithaca (1946) and The Days of His Grace (1960).
He received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1962 for Hans nådes tid.
In 1957, he was named to the Swedish Academy, which annually awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Johnson received the Nobel Prize himself in 1974, sharing it with fellow Swedish author Harry Martinson.
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He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.
