Hagar Olsson Explained

Hagar Olsson
Birth Date:	16 September 1893
Death Date:	21 February 1978
Occupation:	Writer, literary critic, translator
Movement:	Modernism
Birth Place:	Kustavi, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Helsinki, Finland

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.

Further reading

• • • 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olsson, Hagar. The History of Nordic Women's Literature. 25 January 2015.
2. Book: Fredrik Hertzberg. Vesa Haapala. Janna Kantola. Hubert van den Berg. et. al.. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. 2012. Rodopi. Amsterdam; New York. 9789401208918. 448. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401208918_031. The Finland-Swedish Avant-Garde Moments. 28. 10.1163/9789401208918_031 .
3. Book: Stefan Nygård. Hubert van den Berg. et. al.. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925. 2012. Rodopi. Amsterdam; New York. 9789401208918. 341. The National and the International in Ultra (1922) and Quosego (1928). 28. 10.1163/9789401208918_022 . https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401208918_022.
4. http://www.kustantajat.fi/kirjasaatio/palkinnot/einoleino/ Kustantajat.fi