Jan Fridegård
1897–1968.
Author.
Johan Fridegård, known as Jan Fridegård, grew up in a state home outside Enköping and debuted in 1931 with the poetry collection the Black lute. Prior to his debut, he worked in several different professions but was in periods unemployed and without income.
Fridegård wrote articles for the revolutionary magazine Brand and his first novel, One night in July, came out in 1933. The liberation motif is portrayed in the autobiographical novel series I Lars Hård (1935), Thanks for the stairway to heaven (1936) and Mercy (1936).
During World War II, Fridegård began to talk about the rebellious thrall Holme in the Land of Wood Gods (1940), The Dawn People (1944) and Smoke of sacrifice (1949).
Fridegård moved several times in his life and lived in the latter part of his life on the Bredmansgatan 7A in Uppsala.
At the Övergran church in Håbo, a museum has been dedicated to Jan Fridegård.
Burial site: 0105-0304
Image description: Jan Fridegård in his home, Uppsala 1948. Photo: Paul Sandberg / Upplandsmuseet. [The image is cropped]
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