Marianne Alopaeus

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Marianne Alopaeus (born Marianne Rosenbröijer; 9 October 1918 – 10 November 2014) was a Finnish-born writer who published in Swedish. She was born in Ekenäs, Finland, and married in 1940. Her first novel appeared in 1945 under her married name Alopaeus, and in 1946 she moved to Sweden. Her best-known work is Mörkrets kärna (The Dark Core), about a woman who prioritizes intellectual life over her children’s needs; the book shows existentialist influences and has been linked to Simone de Beauvoir. It was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 1947 she received the Finnish Kiitos kirjasta (Thanks for the Book) Award. Her works have been translated into Finnish and Norwegian. She lived in the United States and in France, then moved back to Sweden in 1973. In 1983 she published Drabbad av Sverige, about what it means to be Swedish. A week before her death she moved back to Finland and died in Helsinki on 10 November 2014.