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Swedish writer and translator, member of the Swedish Academy
Gunnel Vallquist
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Swedish writer and translator, member of the Swedish Academy
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Female
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Birth:
19 June 1918(Stockholm)
Death:
11 January 2016(Stockholm)
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Gunnel Vallquist (19 June 1918 – 11 January 2016) was a Swedish writer and translator. Born in Stockholm, Vallquist was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1982. Vallquist was a member of the Catholic Church and wrote several essays on Catholic religion in contemporary times, among them reports from the Second Vatican Council. She translated the seven-piece novel In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust into Swedish (1965–1982).