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Barbro Alving

バルブロ・アルヴィング

Baruro Aruvingu

Pen Names: BangUsed as a pen name

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1909-01-12 (Uppsala)
Died
1987-01-22 (Stockholm) age 78
Nationality
Sweden
Languages
Swedish
Religion
Catholic Baptized in 1959
Residence History
Uppsala (birthplace) → Stockholm (from age 11)

Career

Occupations
Journalist, Writer
Active Years
1928-1987
Affiliations
Idun, Dagens Nyheter, Vecko-Journalen
Influenced By
Elin Wägner

Education

Whitlockska samskolan
General education
Period: ~1928
Year of Graduation: 1928
Country: Sweden
Graduated high school

Awards

Nios Grand Prize
1975
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Dagbok från Långholmen

1956 Memoir

Diary of her time in Långholmen Prison

PacifismPrison life

Käringen mot strömmen

1946 Collected columns

Annual collections of newspaper columns published 1946-1973

FeminismPacifism

Style & Themes

Literary Style
JournalisticDirect and passionate
Recurring Motifs
PacifismFeminismWar reporting

Legacy

Prominent Swedish journalist, pacifist, and feminist known as Bang. Famous for war reporting. The feminist magazine Bang is named after her.

In Popular Culture

  • Namesake of feminist magazine Bang

Trivia

  • Lived over 40 years with daughter Maud Fanny Alving (Ruffa Alving-Olin) and painter Anna Laura Sjöcrona forming 'a different kind of family'
  • Refused civil defense duty due to pacifism and served one month in Långholmen Prison