Eva Virginia Runefelt (born 1953) is a Swedish

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and

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. She made her literary debut in 1975, with the novel ''I svackan''. Her poetry collections include ''En kommande tid av livet'' from 1975 and ''Mjuka mörkret'' from 1997. She was awarded the

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in 1994. She won De Nio Lyrical Prize in 2008 and the Tranströmerpriset in 2018.

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