Ebba Lindqvist
"Ebba" Helfrid "Lindqvist" -Galéen (April 7, 1908 in Oscar Fredrik parish, Gothenburg, grew up in Grebbestad – September 5, 1995 in Varberg), was a Swedish writer (poet). She studied for a Master's degree in Uppsala and became a Swedish teacher at Göteborg upper secondary school for girls. Married in 1933 with business school graduate Ivar Galéen and eventually had three children. Poetry critic at Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning (Gothenburg, Trade and Shipping Gazette) from 1949 to 1956. In Grebbestad, Tanum Municipality has established the memorial garden "Ebba Lindqvist's Place" with a bust by Per Agelii. Career. Her  debut was in 1931 with the collection of poems "Jord och rymd" (Earth and Space), but her real breakthrough came with "Fiskläge" (The Fishing Village, 1939) depicting life in the Bohuslän archipelago. In 1939 Lindqvist's husband and then Ebba Lindqvist herself with their two children moved to New York. They dared not stay in Sweden during World War II, as her husband was of Jewish descent. Lindqvist's impressions of New York were recorded in "Manhattan" in 1943 and in the short story collection "Vägen till Jeriko" (The Road to Jericho) 1946. After the war the family moved back  to Gothenburg and had their third child. After a few years they left Sweden again, since her husband was placed overseas in his work. They lived a while in Lebanon and then in Nairobi. In 1958 the poetry collection "Karavan" was published, with designs from the Near East. In 1964 "Resa mellan fyra väggar" (Journey between four walls) came out, whose motifs are largely taken from the Bible. The last collection of poems, "Mässa för måsar" (Mass for Gulls) appeared in 1966. Many of Ebba Lindqvist's poems have been set to music. Composer Gosta Nystroem's "Sinfonia del mare  is built around his setting of Lindqvist's poem Det enda." Other composers who have set Lindqvist's poems to music are Torsten Sörenson, Ake Hermansson, Alfred Janson, Maurice Karkoff, Lars Edlund, Hilding Hallnäs, Martin Bagge, Vivan Myhrwold Lassen and Henrik Mossberg. She was married 1934-1985 to Ivar Henrik Adolf Galéen, born 1909, and had three children: Anne-Marie, married Blom, born 1934, Monica Galéen, born 1936, and Ivar Henrik Andreas Galéen, born in 1947. Bibliography. Collections. Warne publishing house published "Hon som älskade havet. Samlade dikter av Ebba Lindqvist" (She Who Loved the Sea. The Collected Poems of  Ebba Lindqvist) in 1997, which contains all of Lindqvist's 14 collections of poetry. The second edition of the book also includes a brief biography of Ebba Lindqvist written by Birgitta Ivarson Bergsten ().