Johanna Ekström

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Johanna Ekström
Ekström in 2017
Born	Johanna Ulrika Ekström (1970-05-09)9 May 1970
Died	13 April 2022(2022-04-13) (aged 51)
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation(s)	Author, artist
Notable work	Skiffer 1993.
Children	1
Parent	Per Wästberg - Margareta Ekström

Johanna Ulrika Ekström (9 May 1970 – 13 April 2022) was a Swedish author and artist.^[1][2][3]

Ekström made her published debut in 1993 with a collection of poems called Skiffer, and the following year she had her first exhibition at Galleri Charlotte Lund in Stockholm. Ekström published a dozen collections of poems and short stories as well as novels.

Ekström grew up in Stockholm, the daughter of the authors Per Wästberg and Margareta Ekström.^[4][5]

She made her writing debut in 1993 with the collection of poems Skiffer ("Slate"), and continued to publish poetry during the 1990s.^[6] After the turn of the millennium in 2000, she began writing short stories, novels, and diary entries.^[7] Her first collection of short stories, What Do I Know About Strength, was published in 2000.^[4] Her first published novel was Farewell Relay (2004), which was followed by the short story collection Look, she crawls.^[3] Ekström became better known as a writer through his autobiographical works.^[8] The autobiographical If You Stay in the Sun (2012) describes growing up in a bourgeois and intellectual home on Djurgården. Her previous diaries were published in 2016 under the title Diary 1996–2002.^[6] Her book The Sentences from 2000 depicts the relationship with her mother, after her mother had difficulty speaking due to a stroke in the 1990s.^[7]

As an artist, Johanna Ekström had her first exhibition at Galleri Charlotte Lund in 1994. Her work as a visual artist was closely linked to her poetry.^[9] In 2012, she had her first exhibition at Björkholmen Gallery and was subsequently represented by the gallery.^[10] She also exhibited at the Gothenburg Art Museum and Färgfabriken on Liljeholmen.^[9]

For a time, she was cohabiting with author Tomas Lappalainen and had a daughter with him.^[11]

Ekström died of cancer on 13 April 2022, at the age of 51.^[12] Following her death, a final book, drawing on her 13 handwritten notebooks was completed by Ekström's best friend, the editor and author Sigrid Rausing; translated into English as And the Walls Became the World All Around, it was described in The Guardian as "a brave and beautiful memoir of Ekström’s final two years, and a moving meditation on grief and friendship".^[13]

• Skiffer (1993)
• Vitöga: dikter (1994)
• Rachels hus: dikter (1995)
• Fiktiva dagboken (1997)
• Gå förlorad: dikter (1998)
• Brott, with Erik Pauser (1998)^[14]
• Vad vet jag om hållfasthet (2000)
• Jag ska vakna stående (2003)
• Avskedsstafetten (2004)
• Titta, hon kryper (2006)
• Det enda främmande (2008)
• Om man håller sig i solen (2012)
• Dagbok 1996-2002 (2016)
• Meningarna (2020)
• Och väggarna förvandlades till världen runtomkring (2023)