Jan Myrdal

Jan Myrdal (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020) was a Swedish author. He was born in Stockholm.

Career
His best known works were Report from a Chinese Village (1963), Confessions of a Disloyal European (1968), Angkor: An Essay on Art and Imperialism (1970), Albania Defiant (1970), Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet (1979), India Waits (1980), Return to a Chinese Village (1984), Childhood (1991), Twelve Going on Thirteen (2010) and Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising (2014).

Many of his works were about 19th Century French caricature, Afghanistan, Balzac, wartime propaganda posters, the Indian Naxalites, wine, Meccano, sex, death, and Strindberg.

Politics
Myrdal was a Marxist and supported Leninism and Maoism and other forms of third worldist and anti-Soviet Communism, including Hoxhaism (see Albania Defiant). He supported anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist causes.

Death
Myrdal died on 30 October 2020 in Varberg, Sweden from sepsis-related problems at the age of 93.Författaren Jan Myrdal är död 

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