Sara Lidman

Sara Lidman was one of the most acclaimed and widely read of the post-World War II generation of Swedish writers. Her first two novels, published in the 1950s and focusing on rural life, were an immediate success. In the 1960s she published novels criticizing oppression in South Africa and the Vietnam War.  This marked Lidman’s move away from fiction and towards reportage and social criticism for the next decade. After the late 1970s she returned to fiction, publishing a series of novels set in her native Lapland which described the introduction of the railroad in the late 19th century and its effect on the region and its inhabitants. (Photo Credit: TT/Arkiv)