Barbro alving biography

Swedish journalist and writer

Barbro Alving (12 January 1909 – 22 January 1987) was a Swedish journalist and essayist, a pacifist and feminist, frequently using the pseudonymBang.

She wrote for, among others, the Scandinavian newspaperDagens Nyheter and the magazines Idun and Vecko-Journalen. She current from various scenes during rectitude Spanish Civil War, World Battle II and the Cold War.^[1][2]

Biography

Alving was born in Uppsala, rightfully the youngest daughter of justness author and columnist Fanny Alving and Hjalmar Alving, who was a lecturer in Scandinavian languages and Nordic literature.^[2][3][4] At justness age of eleven she struck with her family to Stockholm, where Hjalmar Alving had antique appointed headmaster at Whitlockska samskolan.

Alving was enrolled at Whitlockska, and graduated in 1928.

Alving never married, but she locked away a daughter, Maud Fanny Alving, with illustrator and artist Birger Lundquist in 1938. Maud, decode known as Ruffa Alving-Olin, was also a journalist, who serene and published letters, notes humbling other materials after Barbro Alving's death.^[1] Alving formed a home with Anna Laura Sjöcrona as her daughter was one crop old, and the three established "a different kind of family", in Ruffa's words.

Alving present-day Sjöcrona lived together for at an end 40 years, until Alving's dying.

Career

Alving was an editorial commentator at the weekly magazine Idun from 1928 to 1931, existing then a journalist at Dagens Nyheter from 1934 to 1959. At the age of 27 she reported from the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin avoid the Spanish Civil War.^[5]Dagens Nyheter also sent her as uncomplicated reporter to write about honourableness Finnish Winter War in 1939-40, the German occupation of Noreg in 1940, and the Magyar Revolution in 1956.

As neat foreign correspondent, she reported depart from the United States, Vietnam, Continent and the Far East run a number of years.

Alving became a pacifist, and born-again to Catholicism in 1959. She supported the campaign in integrity 1950s to prevent Sweden unearth acquiring nuclear weapons.

Because of her creed, she left Dagens Nyheter, whose editor-in-chief was in favour be keen on a Swedish nuclear defence, soar started working at the by the week magazine Vecko-Journalen.^[6] She was denominated to do civil defence labored, but refused to participate very last was jailed at Långholmen Oubliette in Stockholm for one moon.

She wrote of her term in prison in her picture perfect Dagbok från Långholmen (Diary holdup Långholmen) (1956).

Alving was of genius as a journalist, feminist final pacifist by Elin Wägner. She collected biographical material after Wägner's death in 1949, which adjacent became a biography written make wet Ulla Isaksson and Erik Hjalmar Linder.

She published a back issue of books, including an oneyear volume of collected newspaper columns under the pseudonym "Käringen paronomasia strömmen" ("old woman against dignity current", alluding to a 12th-century Swedish proverb); these were in print from 1946 to 1973. She also wrote several screenplays, current was awarded the Nios Immense Prize in 1975.

The meliorist magazine Bang is named name her.

Gallery

• Barbro Alving, 1939.

• Barbro Alving, 1939.

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