Maja Ekelöf

Maja Ekelöf was a Swedish writer.

Life

Ekelöf was a native of Karlskoga, Sweden, and worked as a cleaner. She depicted her work life in her published works.
Ekelöf's "Report from a Scouring-Pale", published in 1970, is one of the most renowned works in the working-class genre.
During the 1970s, she was voted the 2nd most popular woman in Sweden by the Swedish magazine Femina.
After Ekelöf, a square was named in 2019, Maja Ekelöf's Square, in Karlskoga.