Sigrid Lidströmer

Swedish linguist, translator and writer
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IntroSwedish linguist, translator and writer
PlacesSweden
wasLinguist Translator Writer
Work fieldLiterature Social science
Gender
Female
Birth1866
Death1942 (aged 76 years)
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Biography

Sigrid Lidströmer (1866–1942), grand daughter of the architect Fredrik August Lidströmer, was a Swedish author, polemicist and translator. She wrote articles in the Swedish literary gazette Idun, wrote and translated songs, novels, short stories, polemical articles, and poems from and to Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, German, French and English.
She corresponded with Oscar Wilde and translated his The Ballad of Reading Gaol into Swedish.
Her main interests were women's rights, education, literary debate and general human rights.

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