Jan Olof Olsson

Jan Olof Olsson

Jan Olof Olsson (nicknamed Jolo) (31 March 1920 Stockholm, Sweden — 30 April 1974, Hjärnarp, Skåne) was a popular Swedish writer and a journalist for the Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" where he elevated the short sketch to an art. He was married to Margareta Sjögren, a journalist at another Swedish newspaper.

Olsson is most known for his books about World War I and World War II, in Swedish named "Den okände soldaten" (1965; "The unknown soldier") and "Någonstans i Sverige" (1974; "Somewhere in Sweden"), and several essays on popular history has been issued as books.

He also wrote a large number of travel books. In both fields his real strength lies in his ability to use vivid and picturesque situations to illustrate general patterns.

Bibliography

*1954 "Drottningens England "
*1956 "Årsklass 39 "
*1957 "Irland, den omöjliga ön "
*1958 "Chicago"
*1960 "Leningrad, S:t Petersburg"
*1961 "Och deras fall blev stort!"
*1961 "Det glada Stockholm"
*1962 "Amerikafeber"
*1963 "Mittåt"
*1964 "1914 "
*1966 "Ner till Bosporen "
*1966 "Drottningens England"
*1967 "De tre från Haparanda"
*1968 "Plogen och stjärnorna"
*1968 "I Dublins vackra stad"
*1969 "Slipsen i Krakow"
*1970 "Generaler och likställda"
*1970 "Mord och sol och vår"
*1971 "Lågtryck över Irland"
*1973 "De tre mot Petrograd"
*1974 "Någonstans i Sverige"

External links

* [http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/search?INDEX_WFRF_SAME=Olsson,+Jan+Olof+1920-1974 Works by Jan Olof Olsson] in the Swedish National Library Catalogue


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