Rita Tornborg
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Rita Tornborg (born 13 December 1926) is a Swedish novelist and short story writer. She was born in South Africa, and grew up in Poland. She made her literary debut in 1970, with the novel ''Paukes gerilla''. Other books are ''Salomos namnsdag'' from 1979, ''Systrarna'' from 1982, and the short story collection ''Rosalie'' from 1991. She was awarded 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 1995.


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1926 births Living people Writers from Johannesburg 20th-century Swedish novelists Dobloug Prize winners Swedish women novelists 20th-century Swedish women writers Immigrants to Poland South African emigrants Polish emigrants to Sweden {{Sweden-writer-stub