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DEAD: After being sick and weak in recent months, Jan Myrdal died on Friday. Photo: Thomas Johansson / TT / TT NEWS AGENCY
Swedish author, writer and polemicist Jan Myrdal has died. He turned 93.
Aftonbladet reports.
Myrdal was admitted to the hospital last night and died on Friday morning.
– Jan has been weak in recent months, so it was not entirely unexpected. I met him regularly towards the end and talked to him about his books, and then he was able to talk and tell, but he couldn’t write something anymore that made him lose the spark of life, Lasse Diding tells Aftonbladet.
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Diding was the initiator of the founding of the Jan Myrdal Society in 2008 and rented a house with Henning Mankell to house the private library that Myrdal donated to the company.
Jan Myrdal was the son of two of the architects behind the Swedish welfare state Alva and Gunnar Myrdal.
He attracted much attention when in various autobiographical books such as Childhood (1982), Another world (1984) and Twelve on the thirteenth (1989), he painted an irreconcilable picture of his famous parents.
Throughout his long career, the Swedish author Myrdal was awarded several different awards. In 1976 he received the Vilhelm Moberg Fellowship and nine years later the Litteraturfrämjandet highest novel prize. In 2002 he received the Ivar Lo-Johansson personal award and has received awards for his work with French literature.
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– He was a very important Swedish author, at the same time he was also a controversial political figure, writes Expressen.
He drew attention, for example, when in 2016 he was criticized for defending Marine Le Pen on a radical right-wing website. Le Pen has understood the working class and speaks their language, Myrdal thought. Le Pen “is directly related to the values of the traditional French left.” Values that, according to Myrdal, are speaking out against the United States, leaving the EU and NATO, forging close ties with China and Russia, and, of course, fighting against economic and cultural neoliberalism. “The older French communists I spoke to feel that 90 percent of their demands are what they once did themselves,” Myrdal wrote.
Jan Myrdal was married to Andrea Gaytán Myrdal but they divorced in 2018. Jan Myrdal has a son, Janken Myrdal, who he had with his first wife, Nadja Wiking, and a daughter, Eva Myrdal, who he had with Maj Lidberg.
