About Jan Olof Olsson
Lived 1920 – 1974 (aged 54). Jan Olof Olsson was a Swedish journalist and writer.
Jan Olof Lennart Olsson (pen name Jolo) (31 March 1920 – 30 April 1974) was a Swedish writer and a journalist for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. He was married to , a journalist at another Swedish newspaper.
Olsson is known for his books about World War I and World War II, Den okände soldaten (1965; The Unknown Soldier) and Någonstans i Sverige (1974; Somewhere in Sweden). He has also written several historical essays and many travel books.
He died suddenly in 1974 on Walpurgis Night at the family's summer home on the of Scania.
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Swedish writer
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Jan Olof Olsson was born on 30 March 1920 in Stockholm.
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Jan Olof Olsson died on 30 April 1974 in Hjärnarp.
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Jan Olof Olsson was a journalist and writer.
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Jan Olof Olsson was Swedish.
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