What is Jan Myrdal?
[[File:Jan myrdal.jpg|thumb|200px|Myrdal in 2007]] '''Jan Myrdal''' (19 July 1927 – 30 October 2020) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] author. He was born in [[Stockholm]]. ==Career== His best known works were ''Report from a Chinese Village'' (1963), ''Confessions of a Disloyal European'' (1968), ''Angkor: An Essay on Art and Imperialism'' (1970), ''Albania Defiant'' (1970), ''Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet'' (1979),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/silkroad00janm/|title=Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet|year=1979|translator=Ann Henning|author=Jan Myrdal|publisher=[[Pantheon Books]]|isbn=9780394482316 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> ''India Waits'' (1980), ''Return to a Chinese Village'' (1984), ''Childhood'' (1991), ''Twelve Going on Thirteen'' (2010) and ''Red Star Over India: As the Wretched of the Earth are Rising'' (2014). Many of his works were about [[Caricature|19th Century French caricature]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Honoré de Balzac|Balzac]], wartime propaganda [[poster]]s, the [[Naxalite–Maoist insurgency|Indian Naxalites]], [[wine]], [[Meccano]], [[Sexual intercourse|sex]], [[death]], and [[August Strindberg|Strindberg]]. ==Politics== Myrdal was a [[Marxist]] and supported [[Vladimir Lenin|Leninism]] and [[Maoism]] and other forms of [[third world]]ist and anti-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Communism]], including [[Hoxhaism]] (see ''[[Albania Defiant]]''). He supported [[anti-colonialism|anti-colonialist]] and [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialist]] causes. ==Death== Myrdal died on 30 October 2020 in [[Varberg]], [[Sweden]] from [[sepsis]]-related problems at the age of 93.<ref>[https://www.dn.se/kultur/forfattaren-jan-myrdal-ar-dod/ Författaren Jan Myrdal är död] {{in lang|sv}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Myrdal, Jan}} [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Communists]] [[Category:Swedish movie directors]] [[Category:Political activists]] [[Category:Writers from Stockholm]] [[Category:Swedish activists]] {{bio-stub}}