Swedish author Anna Wahlgren is dead, she informs the family at the Swedish news agency TT. She lived to be 80 years old.
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“We are deeply grieved by our mother. We are grateful to her for all that she has given to us, her grandchildren and many others, right up to the end»Write Anna Wahlgren’s children in a joint statement, writes TT.
Wahlgren lived to be 80 years old. In addition to writing the bestseller “The Children’s Book”, released in 1983, he has been a guideline for the education of many parents’ children. You have also written novels, short story collections, poems and an autobiography. Furthermore, he was a well-known public speaker.
She gave birth to nine children, one of whom was Sara Danius, who was the first permanent female secretary of the Swedish Academy. Danius died in 2019.
As adults, many of the children criticized their mother strongly for how they were growing up.
When Anna Wahlgren was a guest on Fredrik Skavlan’s TV show in 2013, it created strong reactions on social media.
It was because he attacked a book written by his daughter – which was about Anna Wahlgren.
– The book was a total shock and you can die of heartbreak. Since the book came out in November last year, I’ve been lying bleeding in the square, public square with a spear in my chest, in my mother’s heart, Wahlgren said among other things.
