Ingrid Andersson (author)
{{Short description|Swedish author (1918–1994)}}
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Ingrid Svea Margareta Andersson (24 April 1918 – 12 February 1994) was a Swedish author. Her works focused mainly on the culture of the Norrland region.{{cite web |title=INGRID ANDERSSON |url=https://nordicwomensliterature.net/writers/andersson-ingrid-2/ |website=The History of Nordic Women's Literature |publisher=KVINFO, KØBENHAVN & KVINNSAM, GÖTEBORG. |access-date=11 December 2021}}
Biography
Ingrid Andersson was born and raised on the island of Timrå in the south-western Norrland area of Sweden. Her first novel, Två berättelser (Two Stories) was published in 1975, when she was 57 years old, and describes the life and legends of the people of the south-western Norrland. This was followed the next year by Ensamheten (The Solitude) which told the story of a lonely older woman and inter-generational relations. Ensamheten was translated into English and German.{{cite web |title=Andersson, Ingrid |url=https://www.alex.se/lexicon/article/andersson-ingrid |website=ALEX - Author Lexicon |publisher=Forflex AB |access-date=11 December 2021 |date=25 February 2008}} In 1979 Andersson's autobiographical book Barnet (The Child) was published, and was followed in 1982 by Andersson's final book Tillbaka till livet (Back to life) which tells the story of a young woman who suffers aphasia after a car accident.{{cite web |last1=Larsson |first1=Lisbeth |title=Ingrid Svea Margareta Andersson |url=https://www.skbl.se/en/article/IngridAndersson |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |publisher=Swe-Clarin |access-date=11 December 2021 |date=8 March 2018}}
Andersson won the Norrlands Litteraturpris for Norrland Literature awarded by the Norrländska litteratursällskapet in 1977,{{cite web |title=NORRLANDS LITTERATURPRIS |url=http://www.norrlitt.se/norrlands-litteraturpris/ |website=Norrlitt.se |publisher=Norrländska litteratursällskapet |access-date=11 December 2021}} and the Landsbygdens författarstipendium for rural authors awarded by the Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan in 1978. She also received the Sundsvall commune's 1975 Kulturstipendium and made appearances on Swedish radio.{{cite book |title=The International authors and writers who's who |date=1982 |publisher=Melrose Press |page=16 |edition=9th |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalaut0000unse/page/16/mode/2up?q=Andersson |access-date=11 December 2021}}
Andersson died on 12 February 1994, at the age of 75.
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Category:20th-century Swedish women writers