Biography
Trotzig was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, as an only child. The family lived with the maternal grandparents in Gothenburg (her grandfather was a psychiatrist, and young Birgitta used to observe his patients), but her parents became teachers in the countryside of Skane. She graduated from grammar/high school in 1948. Trotzig returned to Gothenburg and studied art and literary history. She began writing for the national newspaper Aftonbladet and for the literary magazine Bonniers Litterära Magasin. She married artist and sculptor Ulf Trotzig and lived in Paris from 1955 to 1972 with her husband; during this period she converted to Roman Catholicism. Through her conversion, she gained access to various aspects of French culture and to Christian and Jewish mysticism; she became very interested in San Juan de la Cruz and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
In 1997, she won the Övralid Prize. Birgitta Trotzig lived in Uppsala and remained active in public life and with the various projects of the Swedish Academy for much of her later life.
On 15 May 2011, Peter Englund published the news of Trotzig's death in the evening of 14 May after a long illness.
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