Britt G. Hallqvist
{{Short description|Swedish hymnwriter, poet and translator}}
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| birth_name = Britt G. Nyman
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|2|14|df=yes}}
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| genre = children's songs, Christian hymns
| occupation = hymnwriter, poet, translator
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Britt Gerda Hallqvist (née Nyman;{{Cite web |title=Britt G. Hallqvist - Uppslagsverk |url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/lÃ¥ng/britt-g-hallqvist |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=www.ne.se |language=sv}} 14 February 1914 in Umeå, Sweden – 20 March 1997 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish hymnwriter, poet, and translator. Her grandfather was the medical professor Salomon Eberhard Henschen and she was also the cousin of the neurology professor David H. Ingvar and his sister Cilla Ingvar.
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Category:Swedish Christian hymnwriters
Category:20th-century Swedish translators
Category:20th-century Swedish poets
Category:20th-century Swedish women writers
Category:20th-century women musicians
Category:Musicians from Västerbotten County
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