Maja Ekelöf

Maja Ekelöf (23 February 1918 – 29 August 1989) 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" (Rapport från en skurhink), 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.