Molly Johnson (writer)

Molly Majbritt Emilia Johnson (24 January 1931 – 29 November 2016) was a Swedish novelist from Hofors who was brought up in a working-class family. She made her debut with Pansarkryssaren (The Battleship) when she was just 24. Inspired by Sergei Eisenstein's silent film Battleship Potemkin, it tells the story of a spontaneous rebellion on a ship travelling to an industrial town in Sweden and has been described as a "modern classic". Apart from a children's book in 1956, it took thirty years before she published her second novel Morbror Anders (Uncle Anders) in 1984. Johnson also contributed articles to newspapers and journals.