World’s oldest blogger dies in Sweden aged 109
25 March 2022, 12:54
Dagny Carlsson had thousands of followers and regularly appeared on Swedish television and radio shows.
A Swedish woman who was dubbed the world’s oldest blogger has died aged 109.
At the age of 99, Dagny Carlsson attended a computer course and a year later, she started her blog where she called herself Bojan.
Her friend Elena Strom wrote in an email to the Expressen daily that they had been “inseparable since 2011 when she became a student in one of my computer courses”.
Ms Carlsson had thousands of followers and regularly appeared on Swedish television and radio shows.
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 homage to her by posting a photo of their meeting on Instagram.
On her blog, Ms Carlsson described herself as “a tough aunt, who likes most things”, has a sense of humour and is “a little straightforward”. She posted photos of herself and said she had “always been curious”.
“Being straightforward 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 — and was the eldest 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 retirement home.
Her last blog post was on January 28 when she wrote “like a cat, I have at least nine lives, but I do not know what I should use so much of life for”.
She was also looking forward “to celebrating my 110th birthday in May, preferably with a small party”.
