Eyvind Johnson resenär (1986)

In the footsteps of the author seeking out the images and environments in which his stories were born. The journey goes on dizzying roads between medieval Central Europe and the timeless landscape of antiquity - to return to the Norrbotten winter landscape where Eyvind Johnson's cosmos begins. Eyvind Johnson (1900 - 1976) was a Swedish novelist and short story writer. Regarded as the most groundbreaking novelist in modern Swedish literature he became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation: for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom.