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Ivar Lo-Johansson, ursprungligen Ivar Johansson, folkbokförd som Karl Ivar Loe, född 23 februari 1901 på torpet Ådala under Hammersta gods, Ösmo socken, död 11 april 1990 i Stockholm, var en svensk författare. År 1933 publicerade han romanen Godnatt, jord, vilken blev hans stora genombrott.
Ivar Lo-Johansson (born Feb. 23, 1901, Ösmo, Sweden—died April 11, 1990, Stockholm) was a Swedish writer and social critic who in more than 50 “proletarian” novels and short-story collections depicted the lives of working-class people with great compassion.
Apr 11, 1990 · Ivar Lo-Johansson (23 February 1901, Ösmo - 11 April 1990, Stockholm) was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school. He described the situation of the Swedish land-workers, statare, in his novels, short stories and journalism, which encouraged the adoption of certain land reforms in Sweden.
LO-JOHANSSON, (Karl) Ivar 1901-1990. PERSONAL: Born February 23, 1901, in Oesmo, Stockholm, Sweden; died April 10, 1990 (some sources cite April 11), in Stockholm, Sweden; son of Gottfrid (a laborer) and Lovisa (a manual laborer; maiden name, Ersson) Lo-Johansson. CAREER: Stonecutter, farmhand, journalist, and manual laborer in France, England ...
First, I analyze the representation of this relationship in Swedish working-class writer Ivar Lo-Johansson's novel Kungsgatan [King Street] from 1935. Thereafter, I discuss the whole tradition of Swedish working-class literature-in which Lo-Johansson's novel occupies a central position.
Ivar Lo-Johansson has 99 books on Goodreads with 2900 ratings. Ivar Lo-Johansson’s most popular book is Kungsgatan.
Ivar Lo-Johansson was born in Ösmo, Sörmland, where his parents lived as, statare, the lowest of the farmworker class, whose life had not changed much during the preceding centuries. At the time of Lo-Johansson's birth, they were poor crofters. Lo-Johansson left the school when he was eleven.
