Jan Olof Olsson
Jan Olof Lennart Olsson was a popular Swedish writer and a journalist for the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter where he elevated the short sketch to an art. He was married to Margareta Sjögren, a journalist at another Swedish newspaper.
Olsson is most known for his books about World War I and World War II, in Swedish named Den okände soldaten and Någonstans i Sverige, and several essays on popular history has been issued as books.
He also wrote a large number of travel books. In both fields his real strength lies in his ability to use vivid and picturesque situations to illustrate general patterns.
