Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
Overview
Vollsjö
Vollsjö is a locality situated in Sjöbo Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 788 inhabitants in 2005....
– 31 January 1972 in Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
), born Nils Fritiof Adam Nilsson was a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
author, from the south-most province Skåne, which plays an important role in many of his books.
Educated as a lawyer at Lund
Lund
-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...
he left a successful practice in 1932 to write, and that same year published his debut, "Bombi Bitt och jag" ("Bombi Bitt and me"), a Scanian Tom Sawyer-like story of sorts.
Quotations
"Här under är askan av en man som hade vanan att skjuta allt till morgondagen. Dock bättrades han på sitt yttersta och dog verkligen den 31 januari 1972"
Text in Swedish, roughly translated "Here beneath rest the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day after. However, at last he improved and really died Jan 31 1972."
"Det finns ingenting som inte hänt, men mycket som inte berättats."
Translation: "There is nothing that hasn't happened, but much that hasn't been told."
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