Maja Ekelöf (23 February 1918 – 29 August 1989) was a Swedish writer.

Ekelöf was a native of Karlskoga, Sweden, and worked as a cleaner.

[1] Ekelöf's "Report from a Scouring-Pale" (Swedish: Rapport från en skurhink), published in 1970, is one of the most renowned works in the working-class genre.

[2] During the 1970s, she was voted the 2nd most popular woman in Sweden by the Swedish magazine Femina.

[3][4] After Ekelöf, a square was named in 2019, Maja Ekelöf's Square, in Karlskoga.