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Majken Johansson (August 7, 1930, Malmö – December 11, 1993) was a Swedish poet, writer and a Salvation Army soldier. Majken Johansson was born out of wedlock in Malmö, and spent her childhood in foster care with an abusive foster mother. At the age of 9, she was evacuated from Malmö at the outbreak of World War II and lived with relatives in Småland. Despite her difficult childhood she went through school with good grades and managed to get in at the prestigious Lund University, where she graduated. During her tenage and university years she also suffered from alcoholism. In 1956, after a stormy relationship with another woman, which ended with the woman committing suicide, Majken Johansson suffered a life crisis which would lead to her decision to join the Swedish section of the Salvation Army in 1958. She began to write in the early 1950s, both socially debating articles in newspapers, and poetry. Her first volume of poetry was the critically acclaimed ''Buskteater'' in 1952. She published 8 volumes of poetry between 1952 and 1989. Her poems are not only concerned with life, love and God, but also on everyday reflections in a very simple and keen way, often with a lot of humor. Her life partner was the Salvation Army officer and hymn writer Karin Hartman, who in 2002 published ''Bottenglädjen'', a book about Majken Johansson's life. In recent years Johansson's poetry has been published in new editions and gained a generation of new readers. She is today regarded as one of Sweden's greatest poets of the mid-20th century, alongside names such as Hjalmar Gullberg and Werner Aspenström. In 1970 she was awarded the Large Prize by ''Samfundet De Nio''.〔(List of prize winners since 1916, Samfundet De Nio )〕 She was also awarded a literary prize by the magazine ''Vi'' in 1958, the ''Sveriges Radios poetry award'' in 1965, the ''Deverthska kulturstiftelsens Forsethpris'' in 1972, and the ''Sydsvenska Dagbladets kulturpris'' in 1975. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Majken Johansson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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