Elsa Collin

Elsa Sigrid Collin (3 October 1887 – 29 June 1941) was a Swedish theatre critic, poet and actress.

Early life Collin was the daughter of Knut Johan August Collin, a doctor in Helsingborg, and Sigrid Elvira Eskilsson. Elsa's mother died when she was just two years old; her father later remarried. Collin was also active in the left-wing fraternity Den yngre gubben and wrote for the student paper with, among others, Vilhelm Ekelund, with whom she had a close relationship at the time. Over time she came to work more for newspapers, first as a secretary at the Stockholm weekly Figaro and then as the Stockholm theatre critic for the Malmö newspaper Arbetet. Together they created the theatre group the Dramatist Studio (Dramatikerstudion) and wrote a play for the group based on von Horn's book Aschebergskan på Wittskövle.

Death Collin died in 1941. Her funeral took place in Stockholm, but she was buried in the Nya kyrkogården (New Cemetery) in her birthplace Helsingborg.