Hagar Olsson

Hagar Olsson

Country

Finland

Birth - Death

1893 - 1978

Occupation

Writer

Description

Writer, playwright, literary critic. Had a relationship with Edith Irene Sodergran. Won the 1965 Eino Leino Prize. Published the modernist periodical 'Ultra'. Sat on the editorial committee for the periodical's successor 'Quosego' (1928-29), and from 1931 worked with the Swedish radical women's paper 'Tidevarvet', the feminist influence of which can be discerned in her novel 'Chitambo' (1933).

See Also

• LGBTQ Finland
• Notable LGBTQ Playwrights
• Literary Critics and Editors Who Identify as LGBTQ

Further Reading/Research

• http://nordicwomensliterature.net/writer/olsson-hagar
• http://authorscalendar.info/hagaro.htm