Background
In 1912, her father, Alexander Riwkin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had studied philosophy established himself in Stockholm, Sweden, as an industrialist following a short return to the family"s home town, Gomel in Russia.
In 1912, her father, Alexander Riwkin, a Russian-Jewish immigrant who had studied philosophy established himself in Stockholm, Sweden, as an industrialist following a short return to the family"s home town, Gomel in Russia.
The Riwkin home flourished as a center for culture, attracting both established and upcoming literary figures from Scandinavia and abroad. Eugenie"s younger brother Joseph Riwkin also followed a similar path, acting for a while as a stimulating nucleus within a group of the most aspiring young writers of Sweden. These included Gunnar Ekelöf, Harry Martinson, Karin Boye, Ebbe Linde, who with many others participated as writers and editors in the avant-garde Swedish magazine, Spektrum.
Eugenie was soon working as a creative writer and earning her living as an editor, journalist and newspaper reporter.
The work was translated into fourteen languages and also produced as a film. She continued to maintain a close relationship with her in-laws, in particular her father-in-law.
She eventually became an American citizen and continued to write both journalistically and creatively, covering American theater, music and art One of her later books, Minister Son är Minister (My Son is Mine), appeared in 1965 and was well received.
The writer died in January 1973, at the age of sixty-nine.