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Anderzon, Kim (1943 - 2014) [sv]
Andersson
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Kim Anderzon was a much-loved actress who was also a polemicist and an influencer of public opinion. She successfully promoted radical views without inviting major opposition from the general public.
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Elfrida Andrée was the first Swedish woman to become a qualified organist. She was also the first female cathedral organist and orchestra conductor in Sweden. She composed chamber music and major orchestral pieces.
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Andrea Andreen was a radical doctor and a trailblazer within research on diabetics. She was very active on a socio-political level, including sex education and women’s political issues.
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Andrén, Greta (1909 - 1971) [sv]
Syster Greta
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Greta Andrén was a deaconess, nurse, missionary and author, as well as the founder of the Swedish theological institute in Jerusalem. Through her work, she represented the reconciliatory contribution carried out by many Christian organisations after the second world war.
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Andrén, Karin (1927 - 2017) [sv]
Tengwall
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Karin Andrén was an editor and an influential publisher. She worked on several major book projects related to the Swedish church during the later decades of the 20th century.
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Maria Andrén was a wood-working instructor who was active in Sweden and in England around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Birgitta Andresen became famous as Bibbi Ander, the first Swedish female lead guitarist. She appeared on the SVT TV-programme *Drop In* and she and her band toured with [Rock-Olga](Birgit Magnusson).
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Anér, Kerstin (1920 - 1991) [sv]
Anér-Hallström
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Kerstin Anér was a prominent politician and debater. As a member of parliament for Folkpartiet (the Liberal People’s Party, now Liberalerna), she was especially engaged in issues concerning research and the environment.
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The author Hilma Angered-Strandberg is primarily remembered for her critical depiction of the religious bigotry in Fjällbacka and for her portrayals of late nineteenth-century America.
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Anholm, Maria (1851 - 1946) [sv]
Öberg
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Maria Anholm was an author who combined national and international aspects in her writing. She was interested in both the social conditions of Swedish working women and the vulnerability of the Armenians and the Yazidi in the Caucasus. She was also amongst the first writers to use the term ‘folkmord’ (genocide) as a specific concept.
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Johanna Margareta Ankarcrona was an artist and landscape painter.
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Anna taskomakare was a respected businesswoman in Stockholm during the 1520s.
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Anna, drottning (1573 - 1598) [sv]
Anna Konstantia Habsburg
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Anna av Österrike
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Archduchess Anna was Queen of Poland and Sweden.
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Princess Anna was heavily involved in politics and religion. She was an important advisor to her brother Sigismund and mediated in many of the conflicts which characterize the later period of the Vasa rule.
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Annell, Anna-Lisa (1906 - 1981) [sv]
Annell-Bergstad
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Anna-Lisa Annell was a children’s and young people’s psychiatrist and a professor of child psychiatry. By being a strong-willed visionary and pioneer, in Sweden and also internationally, she contributed to the attainment by child and youth psychiatry of an independent status in relation to adult psychiatry.
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Anrep-Nordin, Elisabeth (1857 - 1947) [sv]
Anrep
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Elisabeth Anrep-Nordin was one of Sweden’s most significant teachers of the deaf. Her career was characterized by her determined activism on behalf of handicapped children and their rights to gain an education.
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Anrep, Edith (1912 - 2012) [sv]
Anrep, Edith, 1912-
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Edith Anrep was a lawyer and an active member of both the Fredrika Bremer Association and the International Alliance of Women. She served as president of the latter from 1970 to 1973.
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Annika Åqvist lived during the 1700s and was one of the first women to be thoroughly interrogated under suspicion of being an insurgent in Sweden. It is however not clear exactly how she was involved in insurrectionary activities.
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Siv Arb was a poet, a literary critic, a translator, and an editor. She was also one of the founders of Författarcentrum (Writers’ Centre) in 1967 and one of the founders of Författarförlaget (authors’ publishing house), along with the annual Poetry day in Stockholm.
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Arbman, Dagny (1908 - 1997) [sv]
Ljungh
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Dagny Arbman was a pioneer in international solidarity work and a driving force in Svalorna (The Swallows). She founded and ran Svalorna’s India section.
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