The world’s oldest blogger dies in Sweden at the age of 109
STOCKHOLM (AP) – Dagny Carlsson, called the world’s oldest blogger, who wrote about her life in Sweden based on the attitude that you should never think you are too old to do what you want to do, has died, Swedish media and her fan page are reported . She was 109.
At the age of 99, Carlsson took a computer course and a year later she started her blog where she called herself Bojan. Her friend Elena Ström wrote in an email to Expressen that they had been “inseparable since 2011 when she became a student in one of my computer courses.
Carlsson had thousands of followers and regularly appeared on Swedish television and radio programs. In March 2018, she met Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and his wife Queen Silvia at the Royal Palace in Stockholm. After her death on Thursday, the Swedish royals paid tribute to her by posting a picture from their meeting on Instagram.
On his blog, Carlsson described himself as “a tough aunt, who likes most things”, has a sense of humor and is “a little uncomplicated”. She posted pictures of herself and said she “has always been curious”.
“Being straight is probably debatable. It’s easy to ‘step on someone’s toes” and I do not want to do that. But I definitely think you have to be true and honest, “she wrote on her blog.
Dagny Valborg Eriksson was born in Kristianstad, southern Sweden, on May 8, 1912 – the same year that the ocean liner Titanic was sunk by an iceberg – the oldest of five siblings. After eight years at school, she took a job at a shirt factory where she worked for 20 years. She later worked at a corset factory north of Stockholm where she met her second husband at the age of 39. She eventually worked at the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
She continued to live independently until last year when she moved into a nursing home. Her latest blog post was on January 28 when she wrote “as a cat, I have at least nine lives, but I do not know what to spend so much of my life on.” She also looked forward to “celebrating my 110th birthday in May, preferably with a small party.”
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