Elisabeth Maria Beskow (Stockholm, November 19, 1870 - 17 October 1928), is a Swedish novelist of novels. She was the daughter of Gustav Emanuel Beskow, a Swedish minister.
Elisabeth Beskow wrote more than fifty novels and children's books during the early 1900s under the pseudonym Runa. . The novels are colored by a strong religious-idealistic view of life and often with a clear moral and solid structure. In her books she wrote about equal rights for men and women and vegetarianism. She was a fierce opponent of animal experiments. After Selma Lagerlöf she was the most read female writer of her time. She wrote, among others, Stemmen (1910), Wildfogel (1916), The Ekekrona Family (1930), Father and the Son. Bibliography
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