Maja Ekelöf

Ekelöf was a native of Karlskoga, Sweden, and worked as a cleaner. She depicted her work life in her published works.^[1]

Ekelöf's "Report from a Scouring-Pale" (Swedish: Rapport från en skurhink), published in 1970, is one of the most renowned works in the working-class genre.^[2]

During the 1970s, she was voted the 2nd most popular woman in Sweden by the Swedish magazine Femina.^[3][4]

After Ekelöf, a square was named in 2019, Maja Ekelöf's Square, in Karlskoga.^[5]

• Brink, Nina van den (2022). Jag har torkat nog många golv : en biografi om Maja Ekelöf (in Swedish). Norstedts. ISBN 978-91-1-311549-8.