Poetic Obituaries: [Birgitta] Trotzig grew up in Goteborg

and Kristianstad in southern Sweden and made her debut with the 1951 novel "From the lovers' lives." Other notable works include the 1957 "The exposed" and the 1961 "A tale from the coast."

She converted to Catholicism in the 1950s and her work has been described as "religiously existential."

from The Canadian Press: Author and Swedish academy member Birgitta Trotzig dies at 81

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