Majken Johansson

Majken Johansson (August 7, 1930, Malmö – December 11, 1993) was a Swedish poet, writer and a Salvation Army soldier.

At the age of 9, she was evacuated from Malmö at the outbreak of World War II and lived with relatives in Småland.

Despite her difficult childhood she went through school with good grades and managed to get in at the prestigious Lund University, where she graduated.

Her poems are not only concerned with life, love and God, but also on everyday reflections in a very simple and keen way, often with a lot of humor.

She is today regarded as one of Sweden's greatest poets of the mid-20th century, alongside names such as Hjalmar Gullberg and Werner Aspenström.