Birgitta Trotzig

Birgitta Trotzig
BornAstri Birgitta Kjellén
(1929-09-11)11 September 1929
Gothenburg, Sweden
Died14 May 2011(2011-05-14) (aged 81)
Lund, Sweden
OccupationNovelist, essayist, poet
NationalitySwedish

Birgitta Trotzig (11 September 1929 – 14 May 2011) was a Swedish writer who was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1993. She was one of Sweden's most celebrated authors, and wrote prose fiction and non-fiction, as well as prose poetry.