Lisbeth Larsson

It paved the way for a grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation which in March 2018 led to the establishment of Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon, a searchable biographical dictionary of Swedish women.

Collaborating with Eva Haettner Aurelius and Christina Sjöblad, in 1991 she published Kvinnors självbiografier och dagböcker i Sverige: Bibliografisk förteckning 1650-1989 (Women's autobiographies and diaries in Sweden: Bibliographic listing 1650–1989).

She then devoted her attention to books, becoming a driving force behind Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria, published in English as The History of Nordic Women's Literature.

Her efforts to extend the archive and transform it into a digital, searchable database finally culminated in a grant from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

[1] In 2012, for her contributions to research into Nordic literature, Larsson was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southern Denmark.