Barbri alving biography definition
Barbro Alving
Swedish journalist and writer
Barbro Alving | |
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| Born | ()12 January Uppsala, Sweden |
| Died | 22 January () (aged&#;78) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Pen name | Bang |
| Occupation | Journalist and writer |
| Genre | Screenplay and biography |
| Children | 1 |
Barbro Alving (12 January – 22 January ) was a Swedish journalist and writer, a pacifist and feminist, often using the pseudonymBang.
She wrote for, among others, the Swedish newspaperDagens Nyheter and the magazines Idun and Vecko-Journalen. She reported from various scenes during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.[1][2]
Biography
Alving was born in Uppsala, as the youngest daughter of the author and columnist Fanny Alving and Hjalmar Alving, who was a lecturer in Scandinavian languages and Nordic literature.[2][3][4] At the age of eleven she moved with her family to Stockholm, where Hjalmar Alving had been appointed headmaster at Whitlockska samskolan.
Alving was enrolled at Whitlockska, and graduated in
Alving never married, but she had a daughter, Maud Fanny Alving, with illustrator and artist Birger Lundquist in Maud, better known as Ruffa Alving-Olin, was also a journalist, who collected and published letters, notes and other materials after Barbro Alving's death.[1] Alving formed a household with Anna Laura Sjöcrona when her daughter was one year old, and the three constituted "a different kind of family", in Ruffa's words.
Alving and Sjöcrona lived together for over 40 years, until Alving's death.
Career
Alving was an editorial secretary at the weekly magazine Idun from to , and then a journalist at Dagens Nyheter from to At the age of 27 she reported from the Olympic Games in Berlin and the Spanish Civil War.[5]Dagens Nyheter also sent her as a reporter to write about the Finnish Winter War in , the German occupation of Norway in , and the Hungarian Revolution in As a foreign correspondent, she reported from the United States, Vietnam, Africa and the Far East over a number of years.
Alving became a pacifist, and converted to Catholicism in She supported the campaign in the s to prevent Sweden from acquiring nuclear weapons.
Barbri alving biography definition The feminist magazine Bang is named after her. The same applies to every other page on this website. Wikiwand for Firefox. She supported the campaign in the s to prevent Sweden from acquiring nuclear weapons.Because of her convictions, she left Dagens Nyheter, whose editor-in-chief was in favour of a Swedish nuclear defence, and started working at the weekly magazine Vecko-Journalen.[6] She was called to do civil defence duty, but refused to participate and was jailed at Långholmen Prison in Stockholm for one month.
She wrote of her period in prison in her book Dagbok från Långholmen (Diary of Långholmen) ().
Alving was inspired as a journalist, feminist and pacifist by Elin Wägner. She collected biographical material after Wägner's death in , which later became a biography written by Ulla Isaksson and Erik Hjalmar Linder.
She published a number of books, including an annual volume of collected newspaper columns under the pseudonym "Käringen mot strömmen" ("old woman against the current", alluding to a 12th-century Swedish proverb); these were published from to She also wrote several screenplays, and was awarded the Nios Grand Prize in The feminist magazine Bang is named after her.
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