Jan Olof Olsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Olof Olsson

Swedish writer

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1920

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 30-Apr-1974

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jan Olof Lennart Olsson (pen name Jolo) (31 March 1920 Stockholm, Sweden — 30 April 1974, Hjärnarp, Skåne) was a popular Swedish writer and a journalist for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter where he elevated the short sketch to an art.
He was married to Margareta Sjögren, a journalist at another Swedish newspaper. Olsson is most known for his books about World War I and World War II, in Swedish named Den okände soldaten (1965; The unknown soldier) and Någonstans i Sverige (1974; Somewhere in Sweden), and several essays on popular history has been issued as books. He also wrote a large number of travel books.
In both fields his real strength lies in his ability to use vivid and picturesque situations to illustrate general patterns.