Vibeke Olsson
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| Born | 1958 (age 67–68) Lidingö, Sweden |
| Language | Swedish |
| Years active | 1975–present |
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Vibeke Olsson (born 1958) is a Swedish author and Baptist pastor. She has won a variety of accolades, including the Ivar Lo Prize, the Stig Sjödin Prize, and the Moa Award.
Born to journalists Jan Olof Olsson and Margareta Sjögren, Olsson published her first novel at the age of 17, with a historical fiction novel about a girl swayed by Nazi propaganda.
Life and career
She was born in 1958 in Lidingö to Jan Olof Olsson and Margareta Sjögren, both journalists and writers. She was raised in Stockholm.[1] Her older sister Elisabeth also became a journalist at Svenska Dagbladet. Her father died suddenly in 1974 on Walpurgis Night at the family's summer home on the Bjäre Peninsula of Scania.[2] The following year, Olsson made her debut as a novelist as a 17-year-old. Her first novel, Ulrike och kriget, focused on the story of a teenage girl in 1939 Munich who sees Adolf Hitler as her country's saviour.[3] A sequel, Ulrike och freden, was published the following year.[4]
She published Hedningarnas förgård in 1982, set in 250 AD of the Roman Empire. The next installment in the series, Kvarnen och korset, was published two years later.[5] By then, Olsson was also a Baptist pastor and married to Bo Casselbrant.[6] In 1990, Olsson published Den vackraste visan, about her older sister who had recently died.[7] She received the Ivar Lo Prize in 2016.[8] She received the Stig Sjödin Prize in 2018.[9] She received the Moa Award in 2022.[10]
Selected works
- Olsson, Vibeke (1975). Ulrike och kriget (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
- — (1976). Ulrike och freden (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
- — (1982). Hedningarnas förgård (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
- — (1984). Kvarnen och korset (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
- — (1990). Den vackraste visan (in Swedish). Albert Bonniers Förlag.
References
Citations
Sources
- Ågren, Britt (4 October 1975). "17-åring debuterar" [17-year-old makes debut]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). pp. 1, 17.
- Ågren, Britt (23 October 1976). "... så blev det fred (vart är Ulrike på väg?)" [... and then there was peace (where is Ulrike going?)]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). p. 55.
- Alstermark, Cecilia (17 November 2015). "Vibeke Olsson får Ivar Lo-pris" [Vibeke Olsson receives the Ivar Lo Prize]. Arbetet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 28 March 2025. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- Björkman, Fredrik (14 September 2018). "Stig Sjödin-priset till pastorn och arbetarförfattaren Vibeke Olsson" [The Stig Sjödin Prize awarded to pastor and labour movement author Vibeke Olsson]. Arbetarbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- Dagens Nyheter (2 May 1974). "Jolo död" [Jolo dead]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). pp. 1, 28.
- Englund, Kasper; Thunberg, Liss (24 January 2022). "Vibeke Olsson får Moa-priset: Fantastiskt roligt" [Vibeke Olsson receives the Moa Award: Fantastic fun]. Sveriges Radio (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
- Grive, Madeleine (29 August 1984). "Hon vill skriva förlorarnas historia: Vibeke — pastor och rödstrumpa" [She wants to write the history of the losers: Vibeke — pastor and feminist]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). p. 60.
- Gustafsson, Madeleine (17 August 1984). "En bred och målande berättelse" [A broad and vivid narrative]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). p. 4.
- Gustafsson, Madeleine (2 November 1990). "Minnen av en död storasyster: "Den vackraste visan" en stökig bok fylld av god vrede" [Memories of a dead big sister: "The Most Beautiful Song" is a turbulent book filled with righteous anger]. Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). p. 20.
- Hallberg, Lasse (25 August 2012). "Vibeke Olsson berättar" [Vibeke Olsson tells her story]. Sundsvalls Tidning (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 26 February 2026. Retrieved 26 February 2026.