Jan Myrdal
Jan Myrdal (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020) was a Swedish author. He was born in Stockholm.
Career
[change | change source]His best known works were Report from a Chinese Village (1963), Confessions of a Disloyal European (1968), Angkor: An Essay on Art and Imperialism (1970), Albania Defiant (1970), Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet (1979),[1] India Waits (1980), Return to a Chinese Village (1984), Childhood (1991), Twelve Going on Thirteen (2010) and Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising (2014).
Many of his works were about 19th Century French caricature, Afghanistan, Balzac, wartime propaganda posters, the Indian Naxalites, wine, Meccano, sex, death, and Strindberg.
Politics
[change | change source]Myrdal was a Marxist and supported Leninism and Maoism and other forms of third worldist and anti-Soviet Communism, including Hoxhaism (see Albania Defiant). He supported anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist causes.
Death
[change | change source]Myrdal died on 30 October 2020 in Varberg, Sweden from sepsis-related problems at the age of 93.[2]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Jan Myrdal (1979). Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet. Translated by Ann Henning. Pantheon Books. ISBN 9780394482316 – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ Författaren Jan Myrdal är död (in Swedish)
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