Jan Olof Olsson
Swedish journalist and author (1920–1974)
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Jan Olof Lennart Olsson (pen name Jolo) (31 March 1920 – 30 April 1974) was a Swedish writer and a journalist for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He was married to Margareta Sjögren, a journalist at another Swedish newspaper.
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Olsson is known for his books about World War I and World War II, Den okände soldaten (1965; The Unknown Soldier) and Någonstans i Sverige (1974; Somewhere in Sweden).[1] He has also written several historical essays and many travel books.
He died suddenly in 1974 on Walpurgis Night at the family's summer home on the Bjäre Peninsula of Scania.[2]
Bibliography
- 1954 Drottningens England
- 1956 Årsklass 39
- 1957 Irland, den omöjliga ön
- 1958 Chicago
- 1960 Leningrad, S:t Petersburg
- 1961 Och deras fall blev stort!
- 1961 Det glada Stockholm
- 1962 Amerikafeber
- 1963 Mittåt
- 1964 1914
- 1966 Ner till Bosporen
- 1966 Drottningens England
- 1967 De tre från Haparanda
- 1968 Plogen och stjärnorna
- 1968 I Dublins vackra stad
- 1969 Slipsen i Krakow
- 1970 Generaler och likställda
- 1970 Mord och sol och vår
- 1971 Lågtryck över Irland
- 1973 De tre mot Petrograd
- 1974 Någonstans i Sverige