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Well-known author, writer and polemicist Jan Myrdal has died at the age of 93.
Jan Myrdal went to the hospital last night with suspected blood poisoning and died this morning.
– Jan has weakened in recent months so it was not entirely unexpected. I have met him regularly at the end and talked to him about his books and then he has told me about it intensively, but lately I was in awe. He could count and speak, but could no longer write, which meant he lost the spark of life, says Lasse Diding.
Diding was the initiator of the founding of the Jan Myrdal Society in 2008 and later, together with Henning Mankell, he also rented a house in Varberg to the large private library that Jan Myrdal donated to the society.
Photograph: Björn Larsson Rosvall / TT
Jan Myrdal at his home in Varberg.
Photo: Thomas Johansson
Jan Myrdal.
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