Rita Tornborg

{{short description|Swedish novelist and short story writer (born 1926)}}

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| birth_place = Johannesburg, South Africa

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| nationality = Swedish

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| occupation = Novelist and short story writer

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| awards = Dobloug Prize (1995)

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Rita Tornborg (born 13 December 1926) is a Swedish novelist and short story writer. She was born in South Africa, and grew up in Poland. She made her literary debut in 1970, with the novel Paukes gerilla. Other books are Salomos namnsdag from 1979, Systrarna from 1982, and the short story collection Rosalie from 1991.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Rita Tornborg |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Rita_Tornborg |language=no|access-date=17 July 2012}} She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1995.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Doblougprisen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor-last=Godal | editor-first=Anne Marit | editor-link=Anne Marit Godal |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Doblougprisen |language=no|access-date=17 July 2012}}