Carola Hansson-Boëthius (born 7 September 1942) is a Swedish novelist, dramatist and translator.

Biography

Born in

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, Carola Hansson studied Russian and history of art and literature at

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. Together with Karin Lindén, she authored her first work in 1980, ''Samtal med kvinnor i Moskva'', translated into English as ''Moscow Women: Thirteen Interviews'', published in 1983. Hansson's first novel, ''Det drömda barnet'' (The Dream Child) was published in 1983, presenting the feelings of fear and longing she experienced in childhood and which typify her later works, especially ''Pojken från Jerusalem'' (1986), ''De två trädgårdarna'' (1989) and ''Resan till det blå huset'' (1991). She became widely recognized in 1994 with ''Andrej'', a novel about the

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family, which was well received by the critics. Her most recent work, ''Med ett namn som mitt'' (With a Name like Mine, 2009), follows on from ''Andrej'' in an episode based on a meeting between the author and someone who claims to have known Tolstoy's son,

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Bibliography

* ''Samtal med kvinnor i Moskva'' 1980 (non-fiction, authored together with Karin Lidén) * ''Kvinnan och Ryssland'' 1981 (non-fiction with Karin Lidén) * ''Det drömda barnet'', novel, 1983 * ''Stilleben i vitt'', novel, 1985 * ''Pojken från Jerusalem'', novel, 1987 * ''De två trädgårdarna'', novel, 1989 * ''Resan till det blå huset'', novel, 1991 * ''Steinhof'', novel, 1997, * ''Den älskvärde'', novel. 2000 * ''Mästarens dröm'', novel, 2005 *

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

's family trilogy: ** ''Andrej'', novel, 1994 ** ''Med ett namn som mitt'', 2009 ** ''Masja'', 2015

Awards

Hansson has received several awards including the Swedish Radio Novel Prize in 1995 and the

Dobloug Prize The Dobloug Prize (, ) is a literature prize awarded for Swedish and Norwegian fiction. The prize is named after Norwegian businessman and philanthropist Birger Dobloug (1881–1944) pursuant to his bequest. The prize sum is 4 * 150,000 Swedish crow ...

in 2006.

References

External links

Carola Hansson's website
1942 births Living people Dobloug Prize winners Swedish women novelists Swedish women dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Swedish women writers 20th-century Swedish novelists 21st-century Swedish women writers 20th-century Swedish translators 21st-century Swedish novelists Novelists from Stockholm {{Sweden-bio-stub