Hagar Olsson

Hagar Olsson
Born	16 September 1893 Kustavi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Died	21 February 1978 Helsinki, Finland
Occupation	Writer, literary critic, translator
Literary movement	Modernism

Alli Hagar Olsson (16 September 1893 – 21 February 1978) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish writer, literary critic, playwright and translator.[1]

Olsson was born in Kustavi. In 1922 she edited an avant-garde literary magazine, Ultra.[2] She also contributed to another avant-garde magazine Quosego.[3]

In 1965 she received the Eino Leino Prize.[4] She died, aged 84, in Helsinki.

References

1. "Olsson, Hagar". The History of Nordic Women's Literature. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
2. Fredrik Hertzberg; Vesa Haapala; Janna Kantola (2012). "The Finland-Swedish Avant-Garde Moments". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Vol. 28. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. p. 448. doi:10.1163/9789401208918_031. ISBN 9789401208918.
3. Stefan Nygård (2012). "The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928)". In Hubert van den Berg; et al. (eds.). A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. Vol. 28. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. p. 341. doi:10.1163/9789401208918_022. ISBN 9789401208918.
4. Kustantajat.fi Archived 30 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

• Media related to Hagar Olsson at Wikimedia Commons
• Olof Enckell (1949), Den unga Hagar Olsson : studier i finlandssvensk modernism. 2 / Olof Enckell., Skrifter utgivna av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland (in Swedish), Helsinki: Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, ISSN 0039-6842, Wikidata Q113526419

• Doctoral thesis about utopian thinking in Hagar Olsson's Works, 2011. (German with English and Swedish summary)
• Hagar Olsson: The woodcarver and death (Träsnidaren och döden, 1940) University of Wisconsin.