Sigrid Lidströmer
Swedish linguist, translator and writer
Intro | Swedish linguist, translator and writer | |
Places | Sweden | |
was | Linguist Translator Writer | |
Work field | Literature Social science | |
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Birth | 1866 | |
Death | 1942 (aged 76 years) |
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.