Eyvind Johnson

thumb|Eyvind Johnson Eyvind Johnson (29 July 1900 – 25 August 1976) was a Swedish author. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974. Quotes Man bör tänka sig själv som en person som finns i framtiden och kan bedöma – fördöma eller gilla – det jag som handlar idag, det jag som håller stånd eller sviker. One should think that you're someone living in the future and that you have to judge—approve or disapprove—the I that acts today, the I that keeps up or fails. "Om mod" in: Tor Andræ and Anders Österling, I angeläget ärende, Stockholm: A. Bonnier, 1941. External links Category:1900 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Nobel laureates in Literature Category:Novelists from Sweden Category:Short story writers from Sweden Category:Academics from Sweden Category:Nobel laureates from Sweden